The Bronzer from peyton wilson on Vimeo.
Documentaries are often about finding the right person. The right person is a person who is passionate about what he or she does. The person talks about their field in a number of locations and the documentary films what is going on in a number of locations. The point is that story telling by the talent is important but the visual story is also important.
Tec dive Little Canyon - Dahab from trimix117 on Vimeo.
Underwater travel
Emergence du Ressel from Lennart Kuijs on Vimeo.
A nice cave diving video. The waters are very clear right up to the end and you even get to see a few fish.
Canyoning, a sport you associate with warmer weather and low altitude canyons. In this case they go to Nepal, climb to 4200 meters before spending many hours going down a canyon. That’s quite an adventure. It looks as if most of the canyoning part was filmed with gopro.
This is a french language documentary following a group of people who went to Argentina to go bouldering. You see the challenge of finding new routes. The style is original, more like a film in parts and more classic in approach at other moments.
A short fiction by Jean Rouch. Mobile camera thanks to technological advances that made sound equipment portable. This new technology would be used for documentary production.
After doing some research some ice climbers find a spectacular and physical ice climb. We see their progression from a variety of angles as well as the occasional fall.
Cinema Verité - where reality is filmed and conversations are real. Nothing is meant to be set up. It has it’s roots in anthropological studies.
Unseen is a documentary divided in to two parts. The first part is about five individuals who provide tours of various parts of London which they inhabited as homeless person and the second part is feedback and advice.
Return to Siberia from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
A change in pace, no extreme sports. Simple observation.