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Full Moon

Author(s): El Flamingo Films
Video Release Date: August 29, 2020
Video Source: Vimeo

For most of us the skiing season is effectively over, but you can still experience the quiet solitude of skiing at night with this film.

 

Night skiing without artificial light: Closing lift stations and the setting sun mark the end of the action for most skiers. Not for Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle. While ski towns fall asleep they head into the mountains and see them awaking in a new light. The snow starts glistening again. It ́s just the sound of their skis turning in fresh snow that breaks the silence of the full moon night.

 

“Some of you might have been on a full moon ski tour before. It ́s a really special vibe which is hard to describe when you haven ́t experienced it by yourself. With this movie we wanted to capture that feeling of being out there skiing in a clear full moon night. There is not much that distracts you from the pure beauty of the mountains.” – Jochen Mesle

Of course backcountry skiing at night is a challenge, but to shoot it without any artificial light at all was a different story. The team spent nine intense nights shooting and ski touring in the Austrian alps in winter 2019 to create this film.

AWARDS:
Audience Award Filmfest St. Anton 2019
Finalist Banff Mountain Film Festival 2019
Finalist Awe Category Roam Awards 2019 (90sec Cutdown)

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