SHAFF '12 - Adrenaline Films

ShAFF 2012: The Roller Man

Yosemite Falls Highline

Director: Camp 4 Collective

America / 2011 / 4mins

In his latest adventure, free climbing, BASE jumping, highlining legend Dean Potter uses cutting edge highline rigging blending classic tightrope gear with recent innovations in slacklining in this perilous crossing of the Upper Yosemite waterfall.

 

A Skateboard Illustration

Director: Brett Novak

America / 2011 / 4mins

Mesmerising Spanish skateboard pro Kilian Martin brings freestyle tricks to urban skating. His unique style, gymnastic talent and technical abilities take skateboarding to the next level.

Concrete Dreams

Director: Danny Strasser

German / 2011 / 7mins

'Bobtrack Downhill Skateboarding' - a sport that didn't actually exist...until now! Danny Strasser visits Germany's Altenberg bobtrack in summer and skates down it at full speed with his longboard reaching speeds of 50mph.

Cooler Than Mike

Director: Conor Toumarkiune

America / 2010 / 4mins

Pro-skier, base-jumper Mike Wilson does a quadruple backflip off a 99 foot rope swing. Enough said.

Dream World

Director: Frank Sauer

German / 2011 / 8mins

Dream World follows German free runner Jason Paul on his on his way to Red Bull’s Art of Motion freestyle competition on London's South Bank where he competes against the world's best urban acrobats.

I believe i can fly - Short Edit

Director: Sébastien Montaz-Rosset

France / 2011 / 16mins

Seb Montez and his crew of skyliners are back - this time on an epic trip through Europe highlining between Parisian skyscrapers, gorges in the South of France and Norwegian fjords, parachuting from falls and cartwheeling off cliffs.

 

Professor Longhair, Big Chief

Director:Scott Bass, Phil Doyle & Kie Willis

Britain / 2010 / 2mins

This wildly successful viral features parkour practitioners Kie Willis and Phil Doyle. Filmed in twenty second bursts over two hot weeks in June 2010 Doyle wanted to make a parkour film that was truly raw and the result it a cheeky little short with a cliffhanger ending.

 

Reel Rock: Sketchy Andy

Director:Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer

America / 2011 / 20mins

He has a tremendous amount of talent, but no fear. It's part insanity, part genius. Slack lining pioneer Andy Lewis solos the world's longest highlines going harder and faster with climbing, slack and BASE.

 

Skateboard Animation

Director: Tilman Singer

Germany / 2009 / 2mins

A bewitching, paper cut-out, animated homage to skateboarding by 23 year old independent filmmaker Tilman Singer. Asked how he made this captivating short, Singer simply says: "A ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music."

Storm freerun Volume 1

Britain / 2010 / 8mins

Paul “Blue” Joseph, Phil Doyle and Mathiue Ledoux star in a Spooks style "test" to identify elite athletes mixing parkour and inline-skating - and fire. One of the Channel 4 documentary 'Concrete Circus' quartet of urban adventure films.

the Rollerman

Director: Danny Strasser

Germany / 2011 / 7mins

Full-frontal, downhill, on-road, in-line skating dressed as a Transformer - it's as nuts as it sounds. French thrill-seeker Jean Yves Blondeau manages to top trump his bobtrack downhill skate-boarding.

 

Uncommon Ideals

Director Chris McClean

Britain / 2011 / 5mins

Uncommon Ideals is part of a project to document surfing on the North Sea - as far from the traditional ideal as you can get with its cold, grey, windy waves and murky brown water. Set to a poem by Dan Crockett, this beautiful short was shot to raise funds and exposure for film-maker Chris McLean's dream of making a feature length version.

 

Dates / Times

This film was last shown at Showroom on 11 Mar 2012

Gallery

  • ShAFF 2012: The Roller Man
  • ShAFF 2012: Cooler Than Mike
  • ShAFF 2012: Reel Rock Sketchy Andy
  • ShAFF 2012: Concrete Dreams

Fact File

Duration
105 mins