Posted September 29, 2009 | Filed Under Community
Written by Shred White | Comments: 1
Rocky Mountain West (Shred White and Blue) — Longtime Shred White and Blue friends Sweetgrass Productions, the Colorado-based film company, is tooling around the Rockies right now showing off Signatures, their super soulful new film.
Filmed last year in Hokkaido, Japan, this human-powered powder quest is a kind of poetic homage to the inherent beauty of winter and deep snow skiing. Seriously, the storytelling and cinematography are all top notch – way better than the action porn you’ll see in most shred flicks these days – and the overall feeling is one of timeless transience.
At the IF3 film festival in Montreal last week, Nick and the crew were honored with the Best Cinematography Award. Here’s the blurb Nick posted about the film – check out the trailer and the tour dates below:
“At the heart of this lovely tale of deep powder mystery: the seasons. In Japan there is a cultural connection to the different Signatures of our terrestrial home — a sense that the rhythm of fall, winter, spring, summer influences the rhythm of the person, their energy, their style, and the lines they choose. Niseko local photographer Yoichi Watanabe explains, “As a photographer, the change in season brings a change of subject. I have to be ahead of this change in nature, like I have to be thinking about flowers before they actually bloom in order to capture what really goes on. I can say the same about the snow as well.” Rooted in winter backcountry and mountain culture. We give our time to filming remote freeride lines, from snowsurf and noboard to alpine and tele. We focus on the riding, we focus on the art, we focus on blending the two into what we call film, both form and content.”
SEPTEMBER
30th Crested Butte, CO The Majestic Theater 7pm $8
OCTOBER
1st Salida, CO Benson’s Tavern 7:30pm $9
3rd Colorado Springs, CO Colorado College Armstrong Hall 8pm $6 for students / $10
6th Denver, CO The Oriental Theatre 7pm $12, Live music to follow from Paper Bird Band
7th Boulder, CO The Boulder Theater 7pm $12
8th Fort Collins, CO TBA
10th Telluride, CO The Nugget Theatre 8:30pm $9
13th Durango, CO The Abbey Theatre 7pm and 9pm $8
14th Golden, CO Bent Gate Community Night 8pm
Check out the site for more: http://www.sweetgrass-productions.com/
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SW&B – Thanks for turning me on to this film. The teaser was so beautiful that I wanted to immediately leave work and go see the film. Seeing that I won’t be near any of the showings in the near future I made do with ordering the DVD. Can’t wait to see the whole thing.
JBK