If you're unable to make it to the Adventure Film Fest in Boulder, then catch As It Happens, an intense, direct-experience mountaineering short by award-winning filmmaker Renan Ozturk and photographer Cory Richards, in its entirety online.
Shot and shared in real time, Ozturk and Richards posted their dispatches from their climb in the Nepalese Himalayas, to the delight of thousands of online viewers following their exploits as they happened. Ozturk and Richards' attention to lighting, focus, arresting camera angles and use of time lapse creates a high-quality movie experience, unexpected for the conditions under which much of the film is shot. The cinematography is laudable in its own right. To have carried the extra equipment necessary to edit and share their experiences, while navigating dangerous terrain at tens of thousands of feet--especially during the final legs of their two-man ascent--seems nuts. And brave. And hyper-real. If you've ever wondered...or ever been there...this is a film you'll want to chew on.
(Don't miss the rest of Ozturk's blog, filled with "dispatches" from other mountain adventures, large and small. The links to Ozturk and Richards, posted above, will take you to each man's own site.)
As It Happens screens at 8 p.m. tonight at Neptune Mountaineering, along with four additional short films. See the Adventure Film Festival page for schedule and ticket info.
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