The 9-minute indie that beat the studio system — on a bike, on a budget, on time.
Through the streets and boroughs of New York, Jimmy, a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company is out to deliver a package "on time". Braving the perilous city streets there's nothing Jimmy can't handle...or is there? This 1987 comedy classic short shown worldwide marked the debut of Director/Screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low-budget filmmaking in New York City.
Direction
Taub's debut squeezes epic scope into micro-runtime.
Practical Effects
Real bike stunts, real traffic, real 1987 Manhattan.
Director
Ari Taub
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot for roughly $3,000 over weekends while Taub worked his own courier gig — method filmmaking before it was trendy.
The CINE Golden Eagle win put Taub on festival circuits that launched indie careers; this was pre-Sundance boom micro-budget mythology.
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