ART FILM

We have been having conversation about creating films of slacklining through the artistic direction of Traveler TT. (can i call you Traveler TT? it reminds me of Booker T and the MGs)
Every slackline video is the same: either a documentary style educational video, explaining how it works and why everybody should do it, or a show off "we did it bigger and better" video from california. Thats not what we want to do.

Videography is an art. Art can stand alone. With a subject as serene as slacklining, we want to create slackline videos of visual serenity. videos that capture the beauty of the sport in creative juxtaposition, or creative harmony with the surroundings. The video is not just about slacklining, its about being a beautiful video.

so here is an excerpt from a brainstorming style episode of emailing that we experienced recently. my personal favorite is the alligator pool.

Traveler:
"this place inTurkey where there are fields of 30 meter high penis shapes rocks,
rig a line there and explore the culture and history. another line i
am thinking is one high in the trees, like the giant 70 meter high fir
and cedars i saw in British columbia Canada recently. just a breath of
wind in the high emerald green canopy. Another one would be a line
out in the middle of a pure white snow covered field, just pure white,
with A white line and one slacker. the image is beautiful and the
line with its incredibly low contrast would be really hard to walk. i
have a million more ideas that create challenges in very aesthetic
conceptually interesting places and situations. it would be like an
art film about slacklining."

Ivonne:
"Another idea which I had in mind since I went to
Australia in August is a highline between
two rocks of the Twelve Apostle in the ocean along the
Great Ocean Road. That could be nice. Or in Berlin
between the towers on Frankfurter Allee, with the
Fernsehturm in the background."

Traveler:
"-walk a line across that last remaining section of the Berlin Wall,
-Rig a long line across a fast moving river.
-over cravasses on a glacier,
-what about setting up a line in a really foggy (nebel) place and
walking a bright, flamy red line through thick tick fog"

Daniel #3
"-how about multiple lines, three simultaneous slackliners, perhaps one
above the other, or side by side.
-a series of slacklines through treetops in a forest that extends as
far as you can see.
-our slack games would be great to video, the one where a slacker on
either end tries to capture a flag from the middle, a game like that
on a highline above an abyss would be VERY intense!!!
-naked slacklining.
-a studio situation, using the invisibility of the line from profile
to create interesting "walkin on air" effects
-over the top of a smokestack on a factory, through the filth.
-deepwater free highlining

Kris:
"ok, i´d like to do slacklining in a tropical butterflyhouse or a big
aviary with little birds in a zoo, but only if we don´t kill any of
the animals by falling off the line. OR in a monkey house with lemurs,
practising the lemur leap, as long as the monkeys don´t attack us too
badly.
(...and how about a line across the alligator pool? or the shark pond?)"