My Bike, My Baby

The film sparks new questions about how a childfree woman, through endurance cycling, encounters and reorients her own “biological clock.” Rather than claiming to resolve chrononormativity, it unsettles the timelines that structure gendered expectations of adulthood, intimacy, and care. The temporality of the race is not peripheral but central: its measured duration, cyclical cadence, and embodied rhythm offer an alternative chronography—one that does not move toward reproduction as destiny, but unfolds through repetition, effort, and return.

Developed collaboratively with the participant, the project invites reflection on gender, kinship, relationality, and embodiment while making the film together. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s thinking on lines and orientation, the film lingered with moments of deviation—asking not what the correct line is, but how we orient ourselves when we depart from it.

Resonating with Sophie Lewis’s critique of the family as a property relation, the film gestures—through its pacing, endurance, and editing—toward forms of love and care that unfold beyond enclosure: between autonomy and interdependence, distance and intimacy.