It’s only in its second year, but to us at PlanetSKI it already feels like one of the autumn events that means only one thing. Winter is around the corner. NEW
Date: Wednesday 30th October 2024.
Location: BFI IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, South Bank, London, SE1 8XR.
On viewing I knew exactly which my favourite one was within an instant and for multiple PlanetSKI reasons.
Step forward, Going East.
Here’s the PR blurb.
“Follow along as a group of skier’s embark on a public transit fueled journey through diverse landscapes and cultures as the long rides blur their sense of time and place.”
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s my view:
“It was a travel film as the riders went east from the Alps on public transport via Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
“It wasn’t full of the rather self-indulgent powder ski shots with a cliched story line, but rather told the adventure as it was.”
Often the snow was way below par.
“You got all the stuff here except powder and this couloir is really shite,” said one of the riders in zero visibility on hard pack ice on a steep couloir.
He then linked a series of jump turns to get down the very steep couloir.
It was impressive skiing.
“The journey to a ski resort is as important as the skiing itself,” said one rider as they finished their journey in central Turkey.
I could only think of my trip to ski in Turkey last winter:
So, what about the other films which many others would have preferred over my personal choice?
Weazy:
Craig Murray’s skiing might jump off the screen, but it’s the character behind the stunts, jumps, flips, and spins that keeps us watching.
Follow along on a season with Murray as he chases snow, evolves his skiing and makes lasting connections with the community that supports him.
“It was a biopic of the New Zealand freerider Craig Murry, with some epic fooatge both in New Zealand and then as he competed as 19-year old rookie on the Freeride World Tour on Verbier’s Bec des Rosses.
After the screening he said “I heave a clear connection with nature and that is where I am at my happiest.”
It is the long reflection of a shy child who has a special relationship with nature and snow, of an adolescent who survives by a miracle and loses his best friend, of a young adult lost in discovering a society that he finds difficult to understand.
Again the riders and director were on hand to be interviewed and take questions.
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