Featured Picture: Gavin Rudy | Skier: Ethan Swadburg
On Film Monday, FREESKIER brings you free motion pictures from the large world of snowboarding. With a mixture of outdated and new, that is the place you’ll find your weekly dose of freeski historical past, adrenaline and cinema mastery multi function.
Strictly produced among the best movies snowboarding has seen in the previous few years. This eclectic crew, made up of a variety of abilities, took to the streets, backcountry and resort throughout their adventures. You’d be laborious pressed to seek out one other group in snowboarding that had such a variety of skiers. In 2021, the crew determined to separate their labor between three tasks. “August Gentle (Have A Good Day)” is the work of Strictly members Ethan Swadburg and Gavin Rudy, and it’s one in all our all-time favorites from this group.
Whereas the movie options many notable names, reminiscent of Jonah Williams and Taylor Lundquist, Swadburg and Rudy had been the first forces behind its creation. Each spend a little bit of time in entrance and behind the digital camera, making the mission really feel like an extremely enjoyable collage of various viewpoints and kinds. Maybe that lack of consistency is precisely what makes this film so gratifying. We’re used to seeing long-form tasks that observe one method all through. However very similar to snowboarding, “August Gentle” is made up of so many attention-grabbing kinds that mix a barrage of feelings, from nostalgia to pleasure, into one journey. It’s virtually unattainable to not like it.
Full with a couple of authentic tunes, (shoutout to DJ Crotch Chop), “August Gentle” is an instantaneous basic. Originality is tough to return by in any space of life, and there’s no scarcity of it right here. However sufficient yapping; hit the lights and slap that play button! Hopefully, we’ll be writing in regards to the subsequent mission from this duo within the close to future as winter approaches.
