Featured Picture: Gavin Rudy | Skier: Ethan Swadburg

On Film Monday, FREESKIER brings you free films from the vast world of snowboarding. With a mixture of outdated and new, that is the place you will discover your weekly dose of freeski historical past, adrenaline and cinema mastery multi functional.

Strictly produced among the best movies snowboarding has seen in the previous couple of years. This eclectic crew, made up of a variety of abilities, took to the streets, backcountry and resort throughout their adventures. You’d be onerous pressed to seek out one other group in snowboarding that had such a variety of skiers. In 2021, the workforce determined to separate their labor between three tasks. “August Mild (Have A Good Day)” is the work of Strictly members Ethan Swadburg and Gavin Rudy, and it’s one in all our all-time favorites from this group.

Whereas the movie options many notable names, akin to Jonah Williams and Taylor Lundquist, Swadburg and Rudy had been the first forces behind its creation. Each spend a little bit of time in entrance and behind the digicam, making the venture really feel like an extremely enjoyable collage of various viewpoints and kinds. Maybe that lack of consistency is precisely what makes this film so pleasant. We’re used to seeing long-form tasks that observe one formulation all through. However very like snowboarding, “August Mild” is made up of so many attention-grabbing kinds that mix a barrage of feelings, from nostalgia to pleasure, into one journey. It’s nearly unimaginable to not like it.

Full with a number of unique tunes, (shoutout to DJ Crotch Chop), “August Mild” is an prompt traditional. Originality is difficult to return by in any space of life, and there’s no scarcity of it right here. However sufficient yapping; hit the lights and slap that play button! Hopefully, we’ll be writing in regards to the subsequent venture from this duo within the close to future as winter approaches.

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