For snow sports, fall brings the promise of some of the most fun and mind-blowing events of the entire ski season. It’s premiere season.
Not premiere in the sense of being the best, though I’d argue so, but premiere as in being the first.
This time of year, all the big production companies for ski and snowboard films hit the road for their countrywide video tours, and most of the companies make a stop in Denver.
The producers and athletes with Teton Gravity Research (commonly referred to as TGR) held their premiere showing of “Re:Session,” their newest film, at the Gothic Theater on Oct. 15.
It was a great mix of snow lovers all celebrating the approaching season by sitting back and enjoying the show of flips spins and huge powder sprays.
It’s a film that “documents the true wealth of the mountain experience,” said TGR.
The movie travels throughout the world to places like Europe, Alaska, Canada, Wyoming and Colorado. Each place they stop, the crew takes in a little culture and a lot of powder.
Skiing off-piste lines in Japan even got the photographers and skiers a close call with the authorities and certain jail time had they not left the area.
One of the best parts of going to a ski premiere is getting to meet some of the athletes that are throwing down huge in the movie.
Seth Morrison and Cody Anderson sat signing posters for fans while Todd Ligare hosted a drawing for lots of apparel and even a coupe pairs of skis. Congrats to the 12-year-old kid who won the Dynastars (skis he won’t grow into for at least five years…the crowd found it pretty funny).
“Re:Session” is revolutionary in that it looks beyond the actual skiing and technical tricks that the athletes attempt and focuses a lot of the message on life in the mountains and what it means to be involved in such breathtaking beauty every day.
Though if tricks are what you want, don’t get bent out of shape: the massive airs and progression in tricks performed by TGR are amazing.
If you missed the show, don’t worry. The DVD is available online and in ski shops around town.
Pick it up and you’ll be able to enjoy some of the best ski film to date all year round.
