Boycicle is a song published on online platforms on Valentine’s Day, not by chance; the video tells through the voice of the legendary French musician Sébastien Tellier the search for the sweet half of a singular figure, half man and half motorcycle. A boycicle. The song is sung by Salvatore Ganacci, pseudonym of Emir Kobilić, eclectic dj and Swedish producer of Bosnian origins.

Combining a surrealist set design with a sometimes wes andersonian photography, the four-minutes video captures this bizarre fairy tale with lightness.

“I’m a big fan of deeply ironic endings”, the director of the video Vedran Rupic tells us. “In this video, the protagonist finds what he wants, but, just like in real life, things are not exactly like dreams”. In fact, the hero of the video, played by Ganacci himself, travels in search of another mythological figure, the mermaid he saw on a newspaper. In the finale, however, he finds himself infatuated with a creature half woman and half jet.

The characterizing element, however, of these mythological figures is the human skin, which also covers the mechanical parts of the vehicle, detail that emphasizes the hybridization between the two natures. “I must say that I didn’t feel very comfortable with the idea of the boycicle, until I realized that we had to make the motorcycle part with the skin too. That’s what really got me exited” comments Rupic. 


A man-motorcycle and a woman-jet could be today’s perfect replacements for the mermaid and the centaur. But we can also say that after virtual reality, the design of humanoid robots and all the imaginative drifts carried out by speculative design, a future with these men with vehicle attachments seems anything but unlikely.