My Bike, My Baby is a short documentary soon to be released. It follows a childfree woman who, through endurance cycling, makes her own “biological” clock.

This 30-minute film is a witty, emotional, and cycling-paced cinematic inquiry into the intersection of endurance cycling and childfree identity. It explores how femininity, family, and adulthood can be redefined through the pain, joy, anger, and thrill of a woman ultra-cyclist during a challenge in Portugal one summer.

Don’t expect an explanation. This film isn’t here to justify why women choose not to have children or why they cycle hundreds of miles into the heat of a Portuguese summer. Instead, this documentary—born from a PhD in Cultural Geography—dives into the hows: how we inhabit our bodies, how we queer space, and how we create new connections through our movements.

It was for made for my Phd in Cultural Geography, currently ongoing. I was co-directing with the protagonist, Agnieszka Dudek, I also filmed and edited for this project. Inspired by Sophie Lewis’s critique of the family as a property relation, the film gestures—through its pacing, endurance, and editing—toward forms of love and care that unfold beyond enclosure: between autonomy and interdependence, distance and intimacy.