full moon
Closing lift stations and the setting sun mark the end of the action for most skiers. Not for Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle. While ski towns fall asleep they head into the mountains and see them awaking in a new light. The snow starts glistening again. Its just the sound of their skis turning in fresh snow that breaks the silence of the full moon night. This new ski film was shot without any artificial light during the full moon periods of winter 2019. A challenge not only for the skiers, but also for the filmmakers.
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Production: El Flamingo GmbH
Directors: Jochen Mesle, Max Kroneck, Philipp Becker, Johannes Müller
Additional Camera: Johannes Hoffmann, Skykopter
Photography: Max Kroneck, Jochen Mesle, Julian Rohn, Rasmus Kaessmann
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29.08.19 — Filmfest St. Anton, Austria (Audience Award)
18.10.19 — Action International Film Festival, California
24.10.19 — Banff Mountain Film Festival, Canada (Finalist)
06.-19.11.19 — Freeride Film Festival - 12 Tourstops in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
14. - 19.11.19 — Vancouver Mountain Film Festival - Fall Series, Canada
22.11.19 — HEAD Movie Night Stockholm, Sweden
22.11.19 — Bansko Mountain Film Fest, Bulgaria
23.11.19 — Allgäuer Freeride Filmfestival, Kempten Germany
28.11.19 — Gratwanderung Filmnight, Montafon Austria
05.12.19 — ROAM Awards, Boulder Colorado (Shortcut)
05.-08.12.19 — Krakow Mountain Film Festival, Poland
08.12.19 — Mendi Filmfest Bilbao, Spain
31.12.19 — Bovec Outdoor Film Festival - Bovec, Slovenia
"Some of you might have been on a full moon ski tour before. It ́s a really special vibe which is hard to describe when you haven ́t experienced it by yourself. With this movie we wanted to capture that feeling of being out there skiing in a clear full moon night. There is not much that distracts you from the pure beauty of the mountains."
– Jochen Mesle
"This was trial and error for both sides of the camera. In the first nights we really had to figure out how to shoot a movie without artificial light, but also get used to skiing without head lamps. The moonlight fills the mountains with really bright and ambient light, but it really mixes up the proportions of your surroundings. Some cliffs look bigger than in daylight, distances of a hike get hard to calculate, every small shadow in the snow seems like a sharky rock. To show proper freeriding you really have to rely on the things you´re feeling with your skis and not the things you try to see while rushing through the darkness . "
- Max Kroneck
