This Initimate Video Documents the Lives of Illegal Motobikers in the Dominican Republic
“I was aware of the many risks they take to keep boredom at bay.”
Youth culture flourishes around the world, and French-born, New York-based director Aurélien Heilbronn sought to document the illegal motorbiking culture in the Dominican Republic through a short film titled “Street Racers.” The intimate video follows a tight-knit community of teens who risk their lives to entertain themselves, blocking off motorways and hitting high speeds on small custom bikes, painting a dauntless yet earnest portrait of boy racers in the Caribbean.
“Everyone drinks and everyone has a gun, but the most interesting thing was to see how these kids, who turned out to be quite nice, have created their own sort of family, an incredibly close-knit community. I was told this was the first time they’d ever allowed someone to film them,” commented Heilbronn.
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