The Freedom Machine

Home » What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more » Cinema » The Freedom Machine

Friday 11 – Wednesday 16 August, 2023

While Susan B Anthony famously said the bicycle ‘has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world’, The Freedom Machine interrogates what freedom looks like for women cyclists. From opening a shiny new bike on Christmas morning to the grind of a daily commute, bicycles hold a multitude of meanings and opportunities for women across the world.

Using archival footage from across the UK’s film archives, The Freedom Machine shows the ways women have used the bicycle to find freedom and independence on the road, the race track and beyond. With a soundtrack by sound artist Cat Hawthorn, the film by emerging curator Jo Reid uses archival footage to entwine her personal experiences as a cyclist with the wider struggles and joys women across the world have discovered from travelling on two wheels.

Buy tickets

GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

This section: Cinema

Filed under: Cinema

Prevous page or post | Next page or post

Written by : Pat Byrne

Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.

Comments are closed.