All Pictures: Mark Clinton, Courtesy of the Faction Collective | Skier: Giulia Tanno
On Film Monday, FREESKIER brings you free motion pictures from the broad world of snowboarding. With a mixture of previous and new, that is the place you could find your weekly dose of freeski historical past, adrenaline and cinema mastery multi function.
There’s an age-old debate that rages amongst our neighborhood. Are we athletes or fanatics? Artists or riders? Are we right here for the tradition or the adrenaline? The reply varies case by case, however in all, it’s onerous to disclaim that there’s something intrinsically clever about snowboarding. It’s spontaneous, chaotic, enchanting and expressive. What else do you want from an artwork type? However perhaps that’s placing an excessive amount of weight on one thing that may be boiled right down to sliding on snow.
Faction is an organization that’s well-positioned to attempt to reply this age-old query. Their merchandise are purposeful artwork in each sense of the time period, and their staff of skiers includes a few of the finest on this planet, starting from freestyle phenoms to backcountry connoisseurs. In “Summary,” director Etienne Mérel takes us from nation to nation and mountain to mountain as we attempt to uncover the true motivation behind these skiers (or artists). With an insane lineup that features Alex Corridor, Antti Ollila, Vasu Sojitra, Mathilde Gremaud, Matêj Švancer and extra, “Summary” is a must-watch flick with snowboarding from the streets of Japan to the backcountry of Wyoming.
Snowboarding will not be artwork, and skiers will not be artists. Except, in fact, snowboarding is artwork and skiers are artists? Faction’s fourth characteristic movie reveals pure creativity by way of a sequence of freeski sequences—from the colourful streets of Japan, to the powdery pillows of British Columbia, to the finely-manicured terrain parks of Switzerland and Italy. Every location offers a clean canvas for the staff’s creative expression. As a result of nothing screams “artist” like sending giant cliffs and grinding the aspect of buildings.
Starring: Alex Corridor, Koga Hoshino, Antti Ollila, Mac Forehand, Vasu Sojitra, Micah Evangelista, Sophia Rouches, Brooklyn Bell, Mathilde Gremaud, Sarah Hoefflin, Margaux Hackett, Giulia Tanno, Tim McChesney, Duncan Adams, Blake Wilson, Elias Syrjä, Kadi Gomis, Tormod Frostad, Matěj Švancer, Štěpán Hudeček, Gianni Biello, Dan Hanka, Dylan Deschamps
Directed and edited by Etienne Mérel
Produced by Hanne Davis and Tim Harty
A Manufacturing by Bluemax Media
Government Producers: Alex Hoye, Galen Knowles, Florian Moser