An Education: A Father and Daughter’s Antarctic Journey
A glacier fills the background, seals rest near the shore, and two small figures stand in an enormous landscape. An Education places a fam...
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Outdoor Films: Mountain Adventures & Visual Stories
A good outdoor film brings together a place, a person and a way of seeing the action. Explore mountain journeys, snow sports and landscape sequences, with attention to the filmmakers and the choices behind their edits. Conditions and routes shown in an older film belong to that recording, so the stories preserve their historical context.
Tandem Snowboarding Friends: A Family Film on the Slopes
A small child shares a snowboard ride with an adult, and the ordinary proportions of a slope suddenly look different. Tandem Snowboarding ...
Skiing a Volcanic Slope Without Snow: The Archive Clip
Skis and snow are such a familiar pairing that this dark volcanic slope makes you look twice. The archive clip follows skiers moving over ...
Léo Taillefer’s 2015 GoPro Ski Line in Val d’Isère
A first-person ski film gives you a peculiar role: you are close enough to see the ski tips, but someone else is making every decision. Lé...
Marshall Miller’s Foggy BASE Jump in Lauterbrunnen
Fog changes the way an action-camera image feels. It hides the distance, removes the familiar horizon and leaves the viewer with only a fe...
Niagara’s 2015 Ice Climb: Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken
The remarkable part of this Niagara climb is the meeting of two very different forms of water: a steep wall of ice beside a waterfall that...
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Sorin Radu’s Avalanche Footage: What the Camera Reveals
A helmet camera makes a mountain scene feel close and immediate. In Sorin Radu’s avalanche footage, that closeness becomes unsettling: the...
Rolling Snow Off a Lawn: Joshua Jordan’s Winter Clip
A small roll of snow becomes a much larger one, leaving an unexpectedly green strip of lawn behind it. Joshua Jordan’s winter clip has the...
Life on the Dawn Wall: Caldwell and Jorgeson’s 2015 Climb
Some of the most revealing Dawn Wall photographs are the quiet ones. A hanging camp, a taped hand or a small circle of headlamp light show...
Andrew Muse’s Snowkiting Image: Reading a Winter Flight
A snowkiter appears several times across a blue sky, tracing an arc above a small snow-covered building. The surviving image from this And...
Ronn Murray’s Real-Time Aurora Film from Alaska
The dark trees hardly change, but the green light above them keeps finding new shapes. Ronn Murray’s aurora film invites a different kind ...
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 2: Playful Ski Cinema
The pleasure of One of Those Days 2 is how quickly the ordinary turns surprising. A recognisable ski setting becomes a sequence of improb...
Inside the Viewpoint of Candide Thovex’s Ski Film
The ski tips remain near the bottom of the frame while the world ahead keeps changing. That simple visual arrangement is a large part of t...
Freezing Soap Bubbles: Tiny Ice Patterns in Motion
A transparent bubble slowly acquires pale, branching patterns. What began as a nearly invisible film becomes a small moving display of ice...
Camping on Floating Ice: Anton Pankov’s Unusual Film
Anton Pankov’s film turns a detached sheet of ice into an unconventional setting for a trip with friends. From above, the small patch of a...
Experience Zero Gravity: A Mountain BASE-Jumping Film
The archive’s Experience Zero Gravity feature presents BASE-jumping footage against European mountain scenery. The viewpoint places the la...