On Falling
2020 · 14m · Canada
Directed by Josephine Anderson
Genres: documentary, sports
Tones: contemplative
Three professional women mountain bikers reflect on their willingness to sustain serious bodily injury in pursuit of mastery.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Anderson transforms extreme sport into phenomenological inquiry — a film about what it means to inhabit a body that has been deliberately taught to accept harm.
Women mountain bikers articulating their relationship to bodily injury — the interior-first approach is exactly right for the subject. Mountainfilm Staff Pick. Real.
Vimeo Staff Pick at Mountainfilm 2021 — Anderson structuring extreme-sport doc entirely around interior psychological reflection rather than competition footage. Fourteen minutes that treats injury as philosophy.
Festivals
- Tribeca Film Festival 2020
- Whistler Film Festival 2020, Best Mountain Culture Film