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Friday, October 23rd and A benefit for Alpine Rescue Team American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St, Golden, CO 80401 TWO UNIQUE SHOWS! Friday Oct 23rd, 2009, 7:00pm - Select short films between special presentations from First Ascent Guide Team members Peter Whittaker and Dave Hahn followed by a panel discussion on mountaineering ethics with other First Ascent athletes Chad Peele and Seth Waterfall as well as Alpine Rescue Team's own team member and world renowned avalanche expert Dale Atkins. Saturday Oct 24th, 2009, 7:00pm - A conventional Mountainfilm on Tour evening of inspiring and always incredible short films. Telluride's Mountainfilm on Tour returns to The American Mountaineering Center in Golden for a 6th straight year! America's premier touring film festival Mountainfilm, returns featuring adventure, cultural and environmental film and video. A benefit for Alpine Rescue Team and sponsored this year by: First Ascent/Eddie Bauer (www.firstascent.com) Both shows are sure to sell out, so get your tickets early! Great door prizes from the Access Fund, Evolv, OR, The North Face, and more! The program consists of two unique nights of different films and formats varying in length and focus, from educational works about cultures and the environment to portraits of remarkable people, of adrenaline packed adventure, and or pure exploration. Both nights of films promise to be inspiring and provacative while taunting and tantalizing your senses as they provide a unique view into a contemporary mountain life with humor and drams. Be sure not to miss Friday night's special presentations and panel discussion on mountaineering ethics! Come out and support Alpine Rescue Team while experiencing glimpses of the world as never seen before. Mountainfilm tickets are $10 for one show or $18 for both, and can be purchased beginning Wednesday, September 17, online, at REI's Denver Flagship and Boulder stores, or at the door (unless sold out). Doors are open at 6:00 PM. Tickets For Both Nights Now Available Only At The Door. 2009 PlaylistPlaylist for Friday 10/23/2009 7:00pm show
The Red Helmet (Tyler Young, 6 minutes) - In a dark and drab world, a fearful young child discovers a bright red helmet that transforms everything.
Dave Hahn, First Ascent Guide Team Member Special Guest Presentation (25 minutes)
History Making Farming Author on the Move (Matt Morris, 7 minutes) - Vern Switzer is an idiosyncratic character: A black farmer in Rural Hall, North Carolina, his passion for growing watermelon found new meaning when God directed him to write children’s books. Now this “farming author on the move” brings his message of sustainable farming and character building to schools across the country. Director Matt Morris (Pickin’ and Trimmin’, Mountainfilm 2008) was inspired by this year’s food theme to create this film to premiere at Mountainfilm.
Intermission followed by doorprize giveaways (20 minutes)
Peter Whittaker, First Ascent Guide Team Member Special Guest Presentation (20 minutes)
Panel Discussion on Mountaineering Ethics (45 minutes) – Panel Members and First Ascent athletes Chad Peele, Seth Waterfall, Dave Hahn, Peter Whittaker, also with Dale Atkins/RECCO/Alpine Rescue Team technical specialist, moderated by Charley Shimanski/MRA President and Alpine Rescue Team technical specialist
Presence: 40 days in Greenland (Masaki Sekiguchi, 15 minutes) - This is a record of what we have done and what we have found while spending 40 days in west coastline of Greenland
Total show time: 159 minutes (2 hours 39 minutes)
*Films and order of program may be subject to change
Mountainfilm on Tour – Golden, CO, Saturday 10/24/2009 7:00pm show
The Red Helmet (Tyler Young, 6 minutes) - In a dark and drab world, a fearful young child discovers a bright red helmet that transforms everything.
Pickin’ & Trimmin’ (Matt Morris, 23 minutes) - PICKIN’ & TRIMMIN’ drops by The Barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina, where the atmosphere is laid back and the music is a cut above the rest.
Revolution One (Dan Heaton, 10 minutes) - Cliff edges, boulders, logs, park benches, public sculpture, handrails, picnic tables, walls and window sills—all are apparently perfect terrain for extreme unicycling. Kris Holm returns to Mountainfilm with more one-wheel wonders and this radical new film.
Look to the Ground (Bjorn Enga, 6 minutes) - Imagine riding your mountain bike at full speed down a steep serpentine trail at night when the moon is a dim sliver that slips in and out of clouds, its vague light often lost in shadow. And now imagine that you’re wearing shades. Just such a scenario describes much of Bobby McMullen’s life: He is a blind mountain biker. Look to the Ground is his story.
Intermission followed by doorprize giveaways (20 minutes)
Drift: Bahamas (Chris Patterson, 10 minutes) - After 50 years as a guide, Bonefish Charlie Smith has become synonymous with bonefish fishing in the Bahamas. But he is much more than just a fisherman with a graceful cast and a knack for locating prize silvery bonefish: He’s a bluesman, historian, raconteur and truly a one-of-a-kind character. As the operator of the famous Bang Bang Club in the Bahamas—where the water is like glass and the sky cotton-candy pastels—this protagonist shares his stories and sharp instincts, sings constantly and finishes each day on the dock, practicing his perfect casts and watching the sun go down.
Samsara (Renan Ozturk, 19 minutes) - In the heart of the lofty, knife-sharp Vindhya Mountains in India sits a 6,500-foot rock route that resembles a massive shark fin and rises from the ocean of crags. This fin, which is twice as long as anything on El Capitan and just as steep, has denied many notable climbers from reaching its summit. In Samsara, all-star climbing team Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to attempt a first ascent. Directed by Ozturk, the film is woven together with art, journal excerpts and still photography. Here’s the thing: The sacred peak, Meru, is said in mythology to be the center of the universe, but can you climb to the center of the universe? And that’s what Samsara—which means “wheel of suffering”—is about.
Shikashika (Stephen Hyde, 11 minutes) - Shikashika is a documentary short that offers a rare glimpse into life in the Andes mountains of Peru. The filmmakers focus on the unseen practices of extracting glacial ice for shikashika, which is sold at the steps of a cathedral beneath the mountain, Huscaran.
Deep/shinsetsu (Masaki Sekiguchi, 4 minutes) - Sometimes, words aren’t necessary. In Deep/Shinsetsu, filmmaker Masaki Sekiguchi (Presence: 40 Days in Greenland, Mountainfilm 2008) lets the images speak for themselves. Filmed in Japan after what appears to be a 100-year storm, this short is a melodic and meditative portrait of skiing powder—chest-deep powder. The film is stripped of the genre’s usual racket: no voice-overs, jibbers, helicopters or hip-hop music here. Instead, it cuts straight to the essentials—the wash of white and the joy of bounding through bottomless snow.
Home (Christopher Thomas Allen, 3 minutes) - “Home is within,” says Joe McGarry, the former director of a homeless shelter and the narrator of this wise and wonderful short film. With a spot-on score by composer Michael Nyman, Home is a spoken-word picture poem that meditates on what it really means to be at home.
Total show time: 124 minutes (2 hours 4 minutes)
*Films and order of program may be subject to change
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