While famed German film director/screenwriter, Werner Herzog, is being interviewed by a skateboard magazine, he is quick to bring up his childhood in Bavaria and his connection to skiing including the 1974 ski jumping film he directed “The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner.” Fascinating interview, definitely curious Russian Orthodox church choir music’s ability to imply a strange feeling of space would translate in a ski movies. Check out that ski jumping movie below if the interview wets your appetite: