Featured Picture: Courtesy of Björn Eklund
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 functional.
Maybe the best quick movie we’ve featured on Film Monday, “As The Carousel Swings” is an unimaginable visible expertise from mastermind Björn Elkund. It’s protected to say that this experimental film goes past snowboarding and is worthy of watching only for its personal sake. From the very starting, we’re pulled right into a weird world full of vivid colours, shirtless Kim Boberg, loopy saxophone and hypnotic snowboarding that’s complemented by impossibly nice camerawork.
Every shot appears random but exact on the similar time; a paradox that’s onerous to explain and even more durable to create. Elkund blends cork 7s with surrealist undertones to ship a movie that hits in all the fitting locations. The result’s complexity that isn’t overcomplicated. As FREESKIER wrote in an article when the movie first debuted, “You don’t should comply with each single shot and stroll away from it understanding a brand new lesson of life. There’s no stress to understand how all of the methods have been carried out, (which you received’t), or comprehend how every meticulous scene was created, (which you additionally received’t). None of these items are essential to take pleasure in this movie. You simply must be alongside for the experience. As Björn places it, ‘so long as the carousel swings we are going to carry on going.’”
We hope you take pleasure in this version of Film Monday as a lot as we do. Thanks to Eklund, Boberg, Burvall and everybody that poured hours and hours into “As The Carousel Swings.” We will solely hope for extra tasks kind this proficient crew quickly!
One other love letter. Impressed by my father and his pleasure to life, in addition to the music “As The Carousel Swings” by The Brian Jonestown Bloodbath. From time to time I doubt myself on making ski motion pictures. I maintain telling myself that is the final one- however so long as the carousel swings we are going to carry on going. – Director Björn Eklund
