Featured Picture: Taylor Loughran | Skier: Joe Schuster
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 With a mixture of outdated and new, that is the place you’ll find your weekly dose of freeski historical past, adrenaline and cinema mastery multi functional.
The artwork of the brief movie has exploded within the final decade, and never simply throughout the large world of snowboarding. Platforms like YouTube and Vimeo have made sharing these petite initiatives simpler than ever. You now not want a prolonged film to attract in an viewers. However making a sequence of shorter ski movies wasn’t all the time this frequent. Nearly 10 years in the past, extra of those sequence started to emerge, and a few of our all-time favorites to this present day are the films made by the Looking for Nirvana crew.
This group of Canadian powder hounds stood out due to their dedication to precision. They integrated refined but significant sound design and animations, masterful cinematography and, after all, among the most interesting freeriding round. That includes a legendary lineup consisting of Mike Henitiuk, Joe Schuster, Riley Leboe and Matt Margetts, the workforce made many glorious movies. Their first one, titled “House,” is that this week’s FREESKIER Film Monday characteristic. With an aesthetic that blends the Whistler backcountry with Wes Anderson, this can be a movie will wash away all of your worries. Dive into the via the lens of the Looking for Nirvana crew.
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That is the mountain village of Whistler, 675m above sea stage. Forested with outdated progress fir and cedar. An necessary black bear habitat. Criss-crossed by deep valleys making technique to countless glaciers. There are few paved roads however as an alternative many miles of intersecting logging roads and dust trails. It’s an El Nino 12 months. We’re on the far fringe of the Howe Sound, well-known for fierce storms, which is able to make landfall from the west, come December.
4 males make haste into the storm in quest of huge powder bowls, to which the mountain village has garnered a fame. A tough job, travelling the unchartered terrain, requires the teams mixed wits. Solely persistence and a spot of luck will reward success. The journey begins within the mountain village they name house however overseas lands beckon. A journey awaits and a sense desired. We observe this group, via trials and triumph, Looking for Nirvana.
Created by: Mike Henitiuk, Joe Schuster, Riley Leboe, Matt Margetts
Cinematography by: Taylor Loughran
Edited by: Leigh Powis
Narration by: Colby James West, Jay Henitiuk
Graphic Design by: Alex Viau
