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Thursday September 15 ~ Films

Equal Footing
2015 USA / Duration: 8 mins

 This short film by Dan Holz and Eric Elofson follows alpinists Kim Havell and Julia Heemstra as they reflect upon life, love and loss during a trip into Wyoming’s Wind River Range. The pair discuss the realities of being female climbers in what is traditionally a male-dominated pursuit and share the pure playfulness and joy of challenging their limits in the backcountry.

Adventure Dispatch
2016 USA / Duration: 6 mins

 He’s no Instagram star or sponsored athlete, but longtime Durango resident Steve Fassbinder — aka Doom — is a true explorer. Using fat bikes, climbing gear and inflatable packrafts to access and link up remote destinations, Fassbinder sets out deep into the desert country of the Four Corners, experiencing places few of us will ever see and pioneering a new way of travel. This short film follows Fassbinder and a friend on an adventure that combines tower climbing, narrows biking, canyon camping and rafting with the emptiness of landscapes that are too far off the beaten path for most people.

The vision came to Krystle Wright in a dream: a bird’s-eye view of BASE jumpers in flight over a stark desert landscape. When she awoke, the adventure photographer resolved to make that vision into reality. And with that, the dream turned into an obsession — one that led her on a four-and-a-half-year journey of failed attempts, uncooperative weather, disappointments and inward examination. The Mysteries follows a tenacious, and perhaps crazy, quest to chase down an elusive image and provides a glimpse into the kind of singular passion that drives people to reach their goals, regardless of what stands in the way.

THE MYSTERIES
2015 USA / Duration: 8 mins

Namuli
2016 USA / Duration: 24 mins

 With their vertical aptitude, climbers go places few others can. Often that results in a first ascent, but, occasionally, it also leads to exciting new discoveries. That’s certainly the case with the expedition at the center of Namuli, a film named for the second-highest mountain in Mozambique. Climber Majka Burhardt (a guest at Mountainfilm in 2008 and 2010) became so obsessed with this peak that she assembled a team of athletes, scientists and community members to climb it in order to understand it better. In the process, they discover a bounty of unanticipated biodiversity and gain a better sense of why the region around this mountain deserves stronger conservation.

Ace Kvale, a veteran photographer, and Ghengis, a blue heeler “dogger” (that’s canine for “blogger”), live together in the Utah desert. Their backyard: 2 million acres of canyons, redrock cliffs, dry washes, empty landscapes and desert wilderness.
For his 60th birthday, Kvale decided to go on a 60-day backpacking trip. Ghengis, naturally, joined him, along with friends who tagged along for sections.
Ace and the Desert Dog proves that while backpacking may not be sexy, what it lacks in glamor it makes up in meaning. Slow down, spend as much time with your best friends as possible and don’t forget to play.

Ace and the Desert Dog
2016 USA / Duration: 9 mins

WHEN WE WERE KNIGHTS
2016 USA / Duration: 12 mins

Understanding that his life was threaded with risk, climber and BASE jumper Matt Blank embarked on a project: writing letters to his closest friends and family to let them know how much they meant to him. That way, he figured, if his life were cut short he’d leave something behind to express his affection.
What he didn’t expect was that one of the recipients — his best friend and longtime climbing partner Ian Flanders — would go first.
When We Were Knights, an elegiac film by Anson Fogel, explores friendship, partnership, adventure and the many iterations of love that give meaning to our lives.

Breaking the stereotype of Adrenaline, a beautifully shot film of ankle-high waves can be brilliant when done with thoughtful artistry and the right skills on a longboard.

Grey
2016 USA / Duration: 3 mins

Showdown at Horseshoe Hell
2015 USA / Duration: 20 mins

Horseshoe Canyon Ranch is a sleepy patch of rural Arkansas where nothing much happens. Except for once a year, when hundreds of climbers descend on the place for 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell, a climbing competition that’s a bizarre mix of Burning Man and Climbing magazine. When elite climber Alex Honnold shows up, he brings his A game. But he might not be prepared for two things: the level of rowdiness and a pair of underdog climbers.

A manhunt is underway in the Alps to arrest French skier Candide Thovex. His crime? Where do we start? Dude skis over a helicopter, into camera vans, hits trees, interrupts races and busts through barns. In One of those Days 3, he takes his POV delinquency to new limits.

One of Those Days
2016 France / Duration: 5 mins

(subject to change)

Intermission

Iceland. Proven Here
2015 USA / Duration: 6 mins

The moss and mountains of Iceland
make for an otherworldly landscape.

Mild Parental Advisory...ass kicking...f-bleep

Mild Parental Advisory...shit & dammit

Parental Advisory...f-bombs, shit, damn, hell.... normal potty mouth stuff

Parental Advisory..bff-bombs...sadness. see parental advisory on advisories above... elegiac~somber...plaintive.

Parental Advisory..the usual climber vocabulary..
f-bombs, etc...

 A backpacker movie!!

Parental Advisory concerning Parental Advisories.. they're explicit.
and I'm captain obvious...bad monkey.

Parental Advisory...There is a death in this film...you don't see it happen... there is nothing graphic... there will be conversation.

 MOUNTAINFILM

CELEBRATING INDOMITABLE SPIRIT SINCE 1979

unlikely... but what if...

I've been asked by many parents over the years... "well what "kind" of swearing and cussing goes on"... and "just how naked are they"...?
Well...nobody's naked so far...and mostly...we're talking your everyday run of the mill cussin'... If'n I hear really ugly... I'll let you know.
and so we come to a controversial subject... life and death... mostly the death part... and risk sports, and children.
Please pay attention to "When We Were Knights". I've added a page...the Parent Page... It's also a SPOILER PAGE!!!,
where you can preview the film. Hope this is helpful. the rest of you...pay no attention to the monkey behind the curtain...

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