Aether is a bit of a mash-up of footage of all four En Route webisodes from season four 2011. I like to take footage from edits we have already made, and re-edit it into a different format. Just like "Thank You", Aether is a more artistic perspective of skiing.
En Route Hokkaido documents a two week ski trip to the island of Hokkaido, Japan. There the Nimbus crew linked up with Black Diamond Lodge to do a mixture of snowmobile access, touring, boot packing off the road, chairlift access, and night skiing. Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, Eric Pollard and Chris Benchetler ski while Justin Wiegand and Ike Smith film. If you are interested in a trip to Hokkaido Japan get in touch with Black Diamond Lodge: bdlodge.com.
En Route Arlberg follows Pep Fujas and Eric Pollard on a journey to Austria where they meet up with Roman Rohrmoser to ski Arlberg, Austria. Natural jumps, spines, and a quick storm ski session all packed into three days of skiing. Interested in going to ski in the same place? Check out: http://www.vorarlberg.travel.
En Route Sled BC follows Chris Benchetler, Andy Mahre and Eric Pollard on a snowmobile trip in British Columbia, Canada. The crew skis in blizzards and blue bird conditions on some of the best terrain North America has to offer. If you would like to stay in the amazing cabin we stayed in at Whistler contact: braundevelopments.com/wp-content/uploads/braun_sunridgeplateau2.pdf. Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing. For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit nimbusindependent.com and facebook.com/nimbusindependent.
"Four Day Season" is exactly what the title says; four days of skiing. However, these four days ended up being Eric Pollard's entire season after he broke his leg in Russia. Filmed entirely in Eric's back yard on Mt. Hood.
The Compass series captures a visually stunning full spectrum experience from ski trips to three beautiful countries: Russia, Italy, and Japan. The contrasting culture, mountain shape, terrain, snow quality, food, language, music, pace of life and architecture all play into what it feels like to ski and travel abroad. For Nimbus, the series is a further departure from a mass appeal approach to ski movie making. skiers: Eric Pollard Chris Benchetler Max Anufrikov (5:07) cameras: Ike Smith music: The Moody Blues "Nights in White Satin" Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Chris Benchetler, Pep Fujas and Andy Mahre. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing. For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit: nimbusindependent.com/ facebook.com/nimbusindependent
The Compass series captures a visually stunning full spectrum experience from ski trips to three beautiful countries: Russia, Italy, and Japan. The contrasting culture, mountain shape, terrain, snow quality, food, language, music, pace of life and architecture all play into what it feels like to ski and travel abroad. For Nimbus, the series is a further departure from a mass appeal approach to ski movie making. cameras: Erin Valverde Pollard Justin Wiegand Eric Pollard THANK YOU: Alessandro Belluscio and the entire Belluscio family La Grange Bruna Berthod, Davide "Dede" Perri, Valentina lagrange-it.com/meuble/home-sito-english.html Courmayeur Isabelle Pavan courmayeur-montblanc.com/?lang=en Ski School Courmayeur Manuel Castelnuovo Comune Di Courmayeur Federica Cortese Raffaele Cusini La Baita Momo and Zio Tony Francesco "Cispa" Civra Dano Petit Bistro Courmayeur Tony and Co. Aiace "Ace" Bazzana Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Chris Benchetler, Pep Fujas and Andy Mahre. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing. For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit: nimbusindependent.com/ facebook.com/nimbusindependent
Our second RAW movie clip is now live. You can now expect us to release 1 each week for the rest of the winter and spring seasons.
RAW is web based series new to Nimbus for 2014. We will release footage every other week all season long as we work toward our final two year project; "After The Sky Falls". We hope that the RAW series will allow viewers to follow us more closely, and keep tabs on our travels and skiing.
Our latest movie [COORDINATES] was shot entirely on the GoPro Hero 3+ camera, by Eric Pollard, Chris Benchetler, and Pep Fujas. Filmed on location in Hokkaido, Japan - Pemberton, British Columbia - and Mt. Hood, Oregon. Nimbus collaborated with artist and producer ?Tired Eyes? to create a unique soundtrack solely for the production. This movie is a brief look at each athletes perspective, and is an attempt to give our audience a better idea of what to expect when our two year movie project ?After The Sky Falls? drops next fall. "We don't take ourselves too seriously at Nimbus, for us it's all about capturing skiing in a way that feels like a day on the hill with friends.? Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to capture skiing in a different way. For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit: nimbusindependent.com/ facebook.com/nimbusindependent
After The Sky Falls captures the skiing of Eric Pollard, Chris Benchetler and Pep Fujas. Two years in the making, the film is not an epic portrayal of the sport, but instead is an attempt to relate to and inspire everyday skiers. This motion picture is not a dramatic narrative piece, it's not a energy drink commercial, it's not meant to make the skiers in the film into heroes, it is simply a film that documents the Nimbus crew's unique approach to skiing, and their focus on fun and creativity.
A couple clips to get you excited about our movie; "After The Sky Falls" dropping October 6th on I Tunes!
Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing.
For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit:
nimbusindependent.com/
Our latest video project ? [COORDINATES II] ? was shot entirely on the GoPro 4 camera, by Eric Pollard, Chris Benchetler, Pep Fujas and John Jackson with cameo appearances by Elias Elhardt and Louif Paradis. Filmed on location in Japan - Italy - Austria - Switzerland - Chile and the Pacific Northwest.
If you like [COORDINATES II] you will love "After The Sky Falls" available on Vimeo @ the link below:
vimeo.com/ondemand/aftertheskyfalls
"We don't take ourselves too seriously at Nimbus, for us it's all about capturing skiing in a way that feels like a day on the hill with friends.?
Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to capture skiing in a different way.
For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit:
nimbusindependent.com/
facebook.com/nimbusindependent
Drawn From Here is a film by Eric Pollard that opens with an exploration of his processes as a skier, as a ski/product designer, and as an artist. It follows the influences he draws from—like basing the shape of a ski tip off of a surfboard or finding patterns observed in nature to integrate into the graphics he hand draws for a ski—and illuminates a thread that runs through and binds all his different disciplines and hobbies.
About Eric Pollard:
EP is a professional skier, artist, and designer from Welches, Oregon. For 20 of his 36 years he’s been professionally sponsored as a skier, but what defines the whole of his career over that time goes well beyond that one simple fact.
