Learning to Ride

Super 8 home movie film, warm amber cast, gate weave, dust and scratches, light-leak flares. Summer evening. A quiet suburban street. A person runs alongside a wobbling bicycle steadying it, then lets go as the rider grins triumphantly, arms out. Long shadows, training wheels, a picket fence. Warm low sun. Silent-era jitter, family-archive nostalgia, 24fps.