Typically once you need to watch a snowboard film, you skip previous the intro, quick ahead by the speaking and storyline setup, and soar straight to the great things. However within the Arc’teryx movie “Aether 5,” you gained’t must. All 9.5 minutes of this summary ski movie are packed shot-to-shot with powder-slashing motion — albeit in gradual movement.
The movie options snowboarder and Arc’teryx athlete Spencer O’Brien, two-time X Video games world champion medalist and two-time Olympic competitor. Within the movie, O’Brien blurs the road between actuality and the ethereal by doing what she does finest: shredding gnar.
“Aether 5” is a trippy, summary exposé of each O’Brien’s expertise on snow and Leo Hoorn’s distinctive directing model. The mixture lends itself to a movie that’s equal components artwork challenge and snowboarding film. Each body was captured in-camera and seems on display screen, unaltered, precisely because it was filmed.
In “Aether 5,” Arc’teryx explores the traditional idea of “æther,” the fifth component (after fireplace, water, earth, and air). If it was ever doable to seize and bottle that component, it could in all probability look one thing like this Arc’teryx movie.
For extra video content material from Arc’teryx, take a look at its YouTube web page. And for extra snowboarding from O’Brien, go to her Instagram.
Runtime: 9:28
