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Electric Pedals

United Kingdom · London
Active last verified 2026-09
Electric Pedals hires out live-wire pedal cinemas for two to twenty riders from South East London. An 18 kg single-bike backpack version of…
Reaction Bike Power

United Kingdom
Active last verified 2026-09
Reaction Bike Power hires out a four-to-eight-bike pedal-powered pop-up cinema in the UK with no electrical storage in the chain. It works…
Bespoke Gear / Renewable Energy Innovation

United Kingdom · Nottingham
Active last verified 2026-09
Bespoke Gear, Matthew Little's Nottingham workshop, sells pedal generators and has published free "no-welding" generator plans since 2011.…
Magnificent Revolution

United Kingdom · London
Defunct last verified 2026-09
Magnificent Revolution was a London nonprofit collective that ran "Cycle-In Cinema" from 2007 to 2012. Its generator design lives on in the…
Pedalcents

Ireland
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
Pedalcents supplies pedal-powered cinema packages — bikes, projection, sound and licensing — for indoor fundraising nights in Ireland. It…
Bent Architect ("Pedal Powered Pictures")

United Kingdom · Bradford
Active last verified 2026-09
Bent Architect staged "Pedal Powered Pictures", a two-day pedal-powered pop-up cinema at Bradford's Oastler Market on 28–29 March 2025. The…
Rock the Bike

United States · Berkeley/Oakland
Active last verified 2026-09
Rock the Bike (Berkeley and Oakland, California) sells generator bicycles, roller stands and pedal-power boxes for events. Its Pedal Power…
Open Air Cinema ("Cinebike")

United States · Salt Lake City
Historical last verified 2026-09
Open Air Cinema's Cinebike is a single-rider, battery-buffered generator bicycle documented as a Hackaday.io build log in 2015. It followed…
Cinécyclo

France · Dijon
Active last verified 2026-09
Cinécyclo, a Dijon association founded in 2014, tours a pedal-powered cinema that travels complete on one touring bicycle. About 20 kg of…
Cinécyclo Sénégal

Senegal · Dakar
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
Cinécyclo Sénégal is the Dakar volunteer group that grew out of Cinécyclo's 2015–2016 Senegal expedition and now acts independently of it.…
Ludik Énergie ("Vélo Cinéma")

France · Saint-Malo
Active last verified 2026-09
Ludik Énergie, of Saint-Malo, hires out a "Vélo Cinéma" package across France and Belgium: adults and children pedal to power the screen. A…
Cin'énergie

France
Active last verified 2026-09
Cin'énergie is a French–Argentine travelling cinema powered by one pedalling spectator, created by Maylis Mercat and Lucia Palenzuela. In…
Au Tour du Cycle ("Je pédale pour mon film")

Belgium · Gedinne
Active last verified 2026-09
Au Tour du Cycle, a Gedinne association, tours Belgium's Ardenne méridionale with the pedal-powered cinema "Je pédale pour mon film". The…
Vélorution Zürich VéloKino / velokino.ch / VCS / Pro Velo

Switzerland · Zürich
Active last verified 2026-09
Swiss VéloKino is one pedal-cinema design run by several bodies: a Zürich volunteer collective, a booking site and two cycling…
Oekotrainer.de

Germany
Active last verified 2026-09
Oekotrainer.de builds and rents an eight-trainer Fahrradkino set from the Frankfurt region; its generator is the roller itself. Its…
KLAK / Solare Zukunft e.V.

Germany · Freiburg im Breisgau
Active last verified 2026-09
KLAK (KlimaAktionsKino) was a publicly funded climate-education bicycle cinema run by Solare Zukunft e.V. from Freiburg, 2016–2019. Its…
Cine2Ride (TU Berlin)

Germany · Berlin
Inactive last verified 2026-09
Cine2Ride, a TU Berlin student Fahrradkino built with a Tempelhof airfield bicycle workshop, premiered on 1 July 2015; nothing later is…
Moviemiento

Germany · Berlin
Active last verified 2026-09
Moviemiento, a Berlin nonprofit event producer, curated the KLAK Fahrradkino's 2018 tour and has run its own bicycle cinema since 2019. Its…
CycleCinemaClub

Austria · Vienna
Active last verified 2026-09
Vienna's CycleCinemaClub has shown bicycle-related films since 2012 on electricity from second-hand e-bikes rebuilt to run as generators.…
CicloCinema

Italy · Trento
Active last verified 2026-09
CicloCinema, a Trentino association founded in 2018, tours a pedal-powered cinema whose entire kit moves by cargo bike and trailer. Its…
ASSA Novara

Italy · Novara
Active last verified 2026-09
ASSA, Novara's municipal waste utility, runs one pedal-powered screening a year on World Environment Day; five editions since 2021.…
Cinedehors / Mobile Green Power

Italy · Sauze di Cesana
Active last verified 2026-09
Cinedehors runs a pedal-and-solar-powered outdoor screening each summer at Sauze di Cesana in the Piedmont Alps. Mobile Green Power, an…
Collettiva Trasforma

Italy · Milan
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
Collettiva Trasforma, a Milan collective working as Pedal Power, built pedal-power installations for two documented events in 2021 and…
Efecto Cine / Efecto Pedal

Uruguay · Montevideo
Active last verified 2026-09
Efecto Pedal is Efecto Cine's touring pedal cinema in Uruguay: ten hub-motor bikes, twelve public docking stations, an ultracapacitor…
Cinemateca Uruguaya — Festival Cine a Pedal

Uruguay · Montevideo
Paused last verified 2026-09
Cinemateca Uruguaya's Festival Cine a Pedal ran seven editions in Montevideo, 2013–2019, with a 22-bicycle relay platform in 2017 and 2019.…
Festival Cinema a Pedal, Nigrán

Spain · Nigrán
Active last verified 2026-09
Festival Cinema a Pedal, Nigrán, is the licensed Galician edition of Cinemateca Uruguaya's Cine a Pedal, held every year since 2022. Ana…
Cinecicleta

Spain
Active last verified 2026-09
Cinecicleta carried a single-bicycle pedal cinema 18,000 km through 14 African countries between 2015 and 2017, giving 217 screenings.…
Cine Móvil Toto

Mexico · Mexico City
Active last verified 2026-09
Cine Móvil Toto screens films in rural Mexico from a hybrid rig of four stationary bicycles plus a solar-panel van, with no battery.…
Cine Bajo el Cielo / Ciclocinema

Mexico · Oaxaca
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
Cine Bajo el Cielo has premiered children's stop-motion films on pedal power in more than 50 Mexican communities from one cargo-bike…
Pedaleando Cine (Cine en las Montañas)

Colombia
Active last verified 2026-09
In Quindío, Colombia, Pedaleando Cine's bike generators charge a lithium battery for large-format cinema in remote rural plazas. Created in…
BikeCine / Cine Pedal Brasil

Brazil · São Paulo
Active last verified 2026-09
BikeCine runs an itinerant pedal cinema from São Paulo on twelve fixed bikes and four bases, with an inflatable screen and a hand-crank for…
Kino Rowerowe (Grupa Impel)

Poland · Wrocław
Active last verified 2026-09
Kino Rowerowe, run by Grupa Impel, is a touring outdoor cinema built around twenty bicycle generators that debuted in Wrocław in 2022. Its…
energiefietshuren.nl

Netherlands
Active last verified 2026-09
energiefietshuren.nl rents "Bioscoop Energiefietsen": sets of four or eight energy bikes coupled together to run a projector. The riders…
AAEE Tasmania — Pedal Powered Cinema

Australia · Hobart
Active last verified 2026-09
AAEE Tasmania runs an annual Pedal Powered Cinema during National Science Week at Kickstart Arts in Hobart. Its 22 August 2026 edition…
Gap Filler — Cycle-Powered Cinema

New Zealand · Christchurch
Historical last verified 2026-09
Gap Filler's Cycle-Powered Cinema, opened in Christchurch in February 2012, ran screenings from up to a dozen audience-pedalled bicycles.…
Melbourne Girls' College — Pedal Powered Cinema

Australia · Melbourne
Active last verified 2026-09
Melbourne Girls' College runs an annual Pedal Powered Cinema in Richmond, Victoria, reaching its 14th edition on 28 February 2025. Guests…
Bukhansan Environmental Film Festival

South Korea · Bukhansan, Seoul
Historical last verified 2026-09
A Korea University green-campus newsletter is the sole record of a pedal-powered 2017 Bukhansan Environmental Film Festival screening. No…
Hyakumori Denki — Nishi-Awakura Village Festival

Japan · Nishi-Awakura, Okayama
Historical last verified 2026-09
Hyakumori Denki, a village energy festival in Nishi-Awakura, Okayama, ran its first edition on 30 July 2023 on a pedal-charged battery. The…
Incheon Green Federation — Earth Day 2008

South Korea · Incheon
Historical last verified 2026-09
For Earth Day 2008 the Incheon Green Federation hand-built three bicycle generators, two of them charging batteries for a laptop screening.…
Nara International Film Festival — Bicycle-Generator Screening

Japan · Nara
Active last verified 2026-09
The Nara International Film Festival in Japan runs a recurring screening powered by audience pedalling, documented in its 2016 program. No…
British Embassy Vientiane — Pedal Cinema Unit

Laos · Vientiane
Historical last verified 2026-09
In December 2013 the British Embassy in Vientiane unveiled a UK-built pedal cinema unit intended for Lao villages without electricity.…
Great Apes Film Initiative (GAFI)

Uganda · Kisoro
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
The Great Apes Film Initiative ran a pedal-power cinema for gorilla-conservation screenings around Kisoro, Uganda, documented 2011–2014.…
Society of Wilderness — Starlight Cinema

Taiwan · Taipei
Historical last verified 2026-09
On 28 March 2015 the Society of Wilderness staged a pedal-charged "Starlight Cinema" at its Earth Hour carnival in Taipei. Twelve generator…
China's Rural 8.75 mm Pedal-Projection Network

China
Historical last verified 2026-09
From about 1970, China's unelectrified villages watched 8.75 mm films from projectors driven directly by bicycle-frame pedal generators. No…
University Reference Builds — Leicester and Sheffield/EWB

United Kingdom · Leicester
Historical last verified 2026-09
Two English university teams built single-bike pedal-powered projector rigs five years apart, at Sheffield around 2011 and at Leicester in…
Low-tech Magazine — Household Bike Generator

United Kingdom
Historical last verified 2026-09
Low-tech Magazine published a measured, open build guide for a household bicycle generator on 6 March 2022. The same generator ran a video…

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Wuhan University Bicycle-Generator Study

China · Wuhan
Historical last verified 2026-09
A 2016 Wuhan University study built and instrumented a complete pedal-to-projector energy chain. It measured about 58% generation…
ufaFabrik — Pedal Power Cinema

Germany · Berlin
Uncertain last verified 2026-09
ufaFabrik ran a Pedal Power Cinema on ten dynamo-trainer bicycles with no battery or ultracapacitor, documented 2012–2015. Continuity at…
EnergoRower

Poland
Active last verified 2026-09
EnergoRower sells and rents bicycle-generator sets in Poland, including a "bicycle powered big cinema" package for about 20 riders. The…
ADFC Rhein-Neckar mobile Fahrradkino

Germany
Active last verified 2026-09
ADFC Rhein-Neckar, a regional chapter of Germany's cycling federation, has run a mobile Fahrradkino for up to 200 people since mid-2024.…
Market Chile — Efecto Pedal, Santiago

Chile · Santiago
Historical last verified 2026-09
Market Chile staged a licensed pedal-cinema event at Quinta Normal, Santiago, on 6–8 November 2014. Twenty-two pedalling spots, buffered by…