Finding Ground
2020 · 11m · United States
Directed by Greg Hunt
Genres: biography, documentary, sports
Tones: contemplative, tender
Former pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley finds grounding and inner peace hunting desert bighorn sheep in the California wilderness.
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It's a documentary about a skateboarder hunting sheep—which sounds like it should be a fever dream, but Hunt plays it completely straight, and that refusal to wink at the premise is what makes it actually work.
A thoughtful meditation on ritual and solitude that sits comfortably in the tradition of contemplative nature documentaries, though it lacks the formal innovation or structural argument that would distinguish it from its lineage.
The decision to let silence and Rowley's internal presence carry the narrative instead of relying on his celebrity or skateboarding credentials—that restraint is what transforms this from a curiosity into something genuinely moving.