Fietsstraat Amsterdam
Fietsstraat Amsterdam
A calming visual ethnography of Amsterdam’s bike streets--and the politics of everday mobility
 

Fietsstraat Amsterdam

Elandsgracht

September 2025

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Unfolding without narration over seven hours, Fietsstraat Amsterdam documents the daily ebb and flow of bikes, cars, and pedestrians as they negotiate the shared space of one of Amsterdam’s streets. Viewers experience how a city trying to prioritize bicycles feels, how people exert their rights to a public space, and how a particular form of understanding comes from the art of sustained attention. With its deliberate pacing, the film is at once calmly meditative and a compelling narrative of urban mobility.