SHAFF '12 - Adventure Bites

ShAFF 2012: A Skateboard Illustration

New in 2012 Adventure Bites is a 1 hour loop of the best short films from across all the programmes at ShAFF this year.

It will be screened continually in the Cafe until 9pm each day. Tickets are £3 for adults and £1 for kids. A ticket will gain you entry to the cafe once, but you can stay as long as you like. If you arrive part way through the loop you can simply watch until the loop finishes and continue watching the next loop until you catch up! Simple. The films screening will be:

 

Cooler than mike

Directed By: Conor Toumarkiune

America / 2010 / 4mins

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

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.

 

The Roller Man

Director: Danny Strasser

Germany / 2011 / 7mins

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.

 

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.

 

Iridium

Director: Murray Fredericks

Australia / 2010 / 8mins

Last year's Best Artistic Film award winner 'Salt' charted the changes in the 360 perfect horizon of the deserted salt pans of Australia's Lake Eyre to explore the effect of solitude and emptiness on photographer Murray Frederick's mood. In Iridium he uses Salt's best time-lapse sequences to create a strangely meditative, almost hypnotic, poetic video short.

 

Blue Obsession

Director: Alan Gordon & Jordan Halland

America / 2011 / 9mins

Alaska's major glaciers are losing 24 cubic miles of ice each year. Alan Gordon has spent a year climbing, exploring and documenting the ever-changing glaciers of the Juneau Icefield, capturing stunning images of a landscape that's constantly evolving and melting away.

Into Thin Air

Director: Sebastian Doerk

Switzerland / 2011 / 9mins

Bike-mountaineering takes mountain biking to a whole new level. Harald Phillip and Martin Falkner hike up then bike-ski and crevasse hop through snow fields, following hairy turns along awesome World War 1 singletrack trails down Monte Cevedale (3778m, Italy).

 

On Assignment

Director: Renan Ozturk

America / 2011 / 6mins

Photographer Jimmy Chin on assignment to shoot a feature story for National Geographic about the cutting edge climbing culture in Yosemite, California - what does it take to tell the story of people living constantly on the edge?

 

Whitewater grand Prix

Director: Ben Marr

Canada / 2011 / 4mins

The Whitewater Grand Prix brings together 25 of the world's best kayakers for a six-stage competition on spectacular white water in Quebec.

Kilian Jornet - Slow motion

Directed By: Sébastien Montaz-Rosset

France / 2011 / 5mins

This slow motion video of ultra trail runner Kilian Jornet is the ultimate way to appreciate his dazzling running style and flawless technique. A masterclass in off-road running.

 

Dates / Times

This film was last shown at Showroom on 11 Mar 2012

Gallery

  • ShAFF 2012: A Skateboard Illustration
  • ShAFF 2012: Killian Jornet: Slow Motion
  • ShAFF 2012: The Roller Man

Fact File

Duration
15 mins