Mountainfilm on Tour 2025: Adventure Shorts Program
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Mountainfilm on Tour 2025: Adventure Shorts Program
Sat, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
$5 – $10
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Sat, January 25, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPricing
$5 student ticket, $10 general admission/adult ticket
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Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater400 E. Illinois Road Lake Forest, IL 60045
Gorton Center and Lake Forest Open Lands present… Adventure Shorts!
The Mountainfilm on Tour: Adventure Shorts program provides an eclectic mix of stories about appreciating the natural world and competing in extreme sport. Like any great adventure, the program has its share of grueling climbs and breathtaking descents, as well as more contemplative moments that focus on the beauty of the wild. It’s a program that’s sure to bring out the nature lover and thrill seeker in all of us!
Adventure Shorts films:
Above the Noise
The world around us can feel overwhelming and loud. In response, Maya delves into her practice of skydiving as a means to focus inwards. She gently inspires us to find our own means of grounding ourselves in flow.
UK/ Duration: 6 min
Directed by: Adam De Silva
Dancing Warrior
On windswept hills surrounded by the bluffs of the Lakota Badlands sits the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For the native youth, living here can be a struggle — the teen suicide rate is among the highest in the country. But many have found hope and purpose in the unlikeliest of places: the traditional sport of horse racing known as Indian Relay. The film follows one teen racing team named Dancing Warrior, who come together to compete and support each other as they face the challenges of life on the reservation. This short film is a coming-of-age story of Lakota teens as they find strength in tradition and passion in competition.
USA/ Duration: 10 min
Directed by: Rachel McDonald & Peter Goetz
Fall Harvest
At Crankworx Cairns in 2023, Nicholi Rogatkin had a season-ending injury, marking the first time in his career that he had to sit out a season. Fall Harvest highlights how time seems to move more slowly while healing and the magic of getting back on a bike again.
USA/ Duration: 2 min
Directed by: Keenan Desplanques
Lexicon
A unique group of skiers from around the world come together to celebrate skiing as a catalyst for human connection. As they shred the bottomless pow of Hokkaido, the transformative power of adventure takes this group from strangers to friends.
Canada/ Duration: 13 min
Directed by: Austin Hopkins & Loic Isliker
Leaving a Tread
As the popularity of mountain biking grows across Mexico, riders like Israel Carrillo work to blaze the trail — literally. Carrillo shares the challenges athletes face in a growing sport, financially and otherwise, while showing off his hometown of Guanajuato.
USA/ Duration: 6 min
Directed by: Maxwell Frank
Re
Twenty years ago, Re forged a new path in the outdoor sports community as one of the few women in her field. As an action sports photographer, she is dedicated to working with and showcasing the strength and individual personalities of female athletes. Re landed the first cover shot of a woman for Backcountry Magazine and the first all-female cover shot for Skiing Magazine. She views her work as a catalyst, fostering a social shift in the perception of female athletes in popular culture.
USA/ Duration: 6 min
Directed by: Iz La Motte
The Draconians
Skiers Sam Favret and Nikolaï Schirmer team up in Norway on a ski touring trip of a lifetime. Follow them up and down futuristic lines as they execute their vision as athletes and filmmakers in this thrilling segment from The Draconians.
France/ Duration: 13 min
Directed by: Maxime Moulin
Time is a Funny Thing
Time is a Funny Thing is an exploration of time and how doing what we love makes it disappear. In this short film, professional mountain biker Tyler McCaul looks back on his career through the lens of his older and younger self.
USA/ Duration: 5 min
Directed by: Jeremy Grant
Unseen Peaks
After enduring discrimination and trauma due to her blindness, Addie seeks freedom through skiing, ice climbing and rock climbing, facing both the challenges of these activities and the need for acceptance within the outdoor community as a disabled person. She believes exposure is the most powerful antidote to fear and dreams of a world where everyone has the safety and freedom to experience the outdoors.
USA/ Duration: 7 min
Directed by: Roo Smith
Asking Less
The Colorado River is one of America’s most valuable and iconic rivers. Photographer and author Pete McBride has been following this river for over two decades. He shows us the stark reality of our water crisis within this river and the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life.
USA/ Duration: 4 min
Directed by: Pete McBride
Obibini
Obibini is a high-energy dive into Ghanaian women’s joy and liberation through surfing. Since 2013, the Obibini Surf Club has empowered women to feel welcome at the beach and in the water.
Ghana Duration: 4 min
Directed by: Benoit Lalande
Ghost Resorts: Japan
With ski lifts no longer spinning and buildings falling into disrepair, abandoned ski areas are nestled among the snow-drifted peaks of Japan. The country’s massive economic boom in the 1980s fueled a wild demand for skiing and an explosion of new mountain resorts. The financial collapse that followed in 1991 decimated both the Japanese economy and the ski industry. Today, hundreds of ghost resorts span the mountains as silent witnesses to the pace of change. Yet the deep powder beckons those who seek to experience an unconventional backcountry adventure.
Japan/ Duration: 10 min
Directed By: Michael J Brown & Zeppelin Zeerip
Desert Wings
Desert Wings brings the unique sport of paramotoring to light showcasing talented pilots exploring the dramatic landscapes of the American Southwest.
USA/ Duration: 4 min
Directed By: Nathan McBride
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Gorton Center houses the beautiful John and Nancy Hughes Theater featuring professional sound, light, video, and digital cinema technology. The 309-seat theater is a wonderful space to watch a film - we offer a wide variety - ranging from classics from the past to newer releases, documentary films and festivals, kids and family movies, and we screen John Hughes movies several times a year.
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