The Vintagent Trailers: Motorcycle Moment

MOTORCYCLE MOMENT (2025)

Run Time: 6:00
Producer: Harrod Blank, Les Blank Films
Director: Les Blank
Editor: Ben Abrams
Key Cast: Bill Robertson

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Les Blank (1935-2013) was an internationally renowned, independent filmmaker, whose poetic work offers intimate, idiosyncratic glimpses into the lives, culture, and music of the passionate people at the periphery of American society. Blank is perhaps best known for his feature-length Burden of Dreams (1982), documenting the chaotic production of fellow director, and friend, Werner Herzog’s 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo” in the jungles of South America. Roger Ebert called Burden of Dreams, “…one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie.” Another of Blank’s best-loved works is Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980), a seminal food film featuring culinary pioneer Alice Waters, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival. This film, notorious for its mouthwateringness, was initially shown in “Aromaround” with garlic simultaneously roasted in-theater…

Prior to Les Blank’s death, in April of 2013, the non profit “Les Blank Films Inc.” was created and son Harrod Blank, a filmmaker in his own right, became the organization’s president. Since his father’s passing, Harrod Blank has been working with a talented team of post-production experts to remaster several of Les’s most popular films. Harrod also has plans for a biography about his father, (tentatively titled, “Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation.” – Read more at LesBlankFilms.com