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.