A new experimental animated ski film debuted at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, combining Latvian director Edmunds Jansons’s love for skiing with American composer Terry Riley’s In C. According to Film New Europe, Jansons has previously described ski resorts as “the perfect mise-en-scène for animation.”
The film, Freeride in C, uses In C to create a rhythmic experience throughout, highlighting the shared repetition and looping found in both modern music and in animation.
“The score of In C consists of 53 modules that performers can loop as long as they wisg. This creates unpredictable melodic and rhythmic landscapes. In animation, repetition and looping have been a natural part of the medium’s vocabulary from the early days of pre-cinematic toys to the gifs of the internet age. This film is my attempt to unite these two art forms into a coherent and organic whole.” – Edmunds Jansons
Freeride in C premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in Canada between September 25 and 29, and it’s set to premier again at the Riga International Film Festival in Latvia between October 17 and 27. In the United States, the film is set to show at the Montclair Film Festival between October 18 & 27.
