TIME TRIAL

The end of an athlete’s career is a race against time and a fight against an inevitable demise.
The addictive need to participate defies logic and creates a mesmerising and painful spectacle.
Time Trial takes us into the final races of cyclist David Millar’s career, leading up to his last
encounter with the Tour de France. We go inside the peloton, we’re pushed up impossible
climbs and forced down rapid descents, we lie alongside him in his hotel room in post-race
agony. We ride in the support car, the source of comfort, supplies and fleeting relief from the
cold. And we know that every mile travelled is a mile closer to the end. Time Trial gets us close
to David Millar, revealing how the human spirit is driven by a force deeper than success and
glory. Filmed using pioneering techniques, bespoke vehicles and on-bike cameras, and with a
new score by US composer Dan Deacon.

"I have ridden and raced a bike all of my life - it’s a part of me. And David captures an ecstatic
vision of what it felt like to ride or race. He allows me to translate this reality into images and
to encapsulate what it feels like to truly ride in this way day after day, year after year. Many
racers last a year or two in this world; to be consistently inhabiting this space for this long, is an incredible feat."
Finlay Pretsell