This is it - the "OFFICIAL" - Adelholzener "Wingsuit" TV spot I directed last fall in Switzerland. You can see more of my reports from the shoot earlier in my blawg. This is the "Cinema or Kino" version that is currently showing in movie theaters around Germany. It must look really spectacular on a BIG screen.

Enjoy

Thanks for your interest.

CP in Print (but also online)

Here are a couple articles that appeared in American Cinematographer (July 2010) about the making of INCEPTION and more recently a story about Warren Miller Films in Kodak's "IN CAMERA"

Thanks for your interest

CP

Warren Miller Shoot - Breckenridge - Colby West

Over the last few weeks been lucky enough to steal some time with Freeskier Colby James West - we first visited him in Aspen at the X Games and then the last couple days we met up with him at his home resort- Breck. The objective of the shoot is to see the world through his eye's. We basically recreated "with some artistic license" the last 4 or 5 years of his life and his climb to be one of the top pro skiers competing today. We used the Canon 5D with a 14mm to mimic his view, camera's mounted on his head, shoulder and chest take the view into the action, skiing, sleeping, eating, bro-ing down, crashing, even Yoga..... etc - everything that makes his world turn. It will be all cut into about 90 seconds of the film and will be really captivating for the viewers, especially those in the theater. In the pic above - Cameraman Colin Witherill is hooking up the 5D with a 15mm fisheye for a run through the park in Breck. Thanks to Colby for all the team work, he is a great talent, in front and behind the camera.

Click here to visit Colby's site.

More to come - next trip..... India

Thanks

CP

Chris Anthony - Always on the move - ITALY

So some of you may know Chris Anthony. He's a veteran of the Warren Miller Films - maybe 20 now, maybe 21 - movies that is, not his age - we don't actually know his age. He and I have shot all over the place over the years and he is a great friend and dedicated skiing addict (see last years WM movie Wintervention and you will see). Anyway, each winter he spends a few weeks in Italy taking various friends and clients skiing near Valbrunna (stunning place, I shot there probably 8 years ago with Chris). He calls it a "A Wine and Dine Trip with a Skiing Problem" - sounds awesome - he has the place so dialed, I hope we join him again someday to shoot another piece for the film.

Click here to follow on his facebook page.

Here is just one of the views:

Aspen - X Games with Colby West

Our Warren Miller season is off to a start - not a particularly fast start - but we are getting there, this is normal, soon it will be full steam ahead and I won't recall the date, day or geographic location of my person. Some nice trips planned for the next couple of months.

Here: Colby at the Powder Video Awards - notice the camera rig - Canon 5d with 14mm.

In Aspen we shot a 3 part piece with skier Colby West, we are sort of recreating the last five years of his life all shot in his POV - so like Being John Malckovich. The entire piece will be at most 90 seconds. He was a trooper - wore the camera rig all over the place at the X Games - capturing his life in it's current "Pro Skier" status - parties, training, friends, food, drink, more friends. It was very cool, next stop Breck for some of the back story pieces and his rise to fame.....

Thanks for checking in on me.

Cheers

Chris

Silverton Shoot - The Director Rupert Weinwright

Silverton, CO - Day 1 of shooting: Sometimes when we shoot projects, I use the phase "I feel handcuffed" in this photo(thanks Logan) I look handcuffed, beside me is Director Rupert Weinwright - I feel like he should be saying "Son, did you really think you could steal this helicopter?"

In all seriousness, it was a pleasure to work with him, he is extremely experienced and detail oriented. I find it amazing how great directors can have a total understanding of a subject in just a few minutes of being exposed to it, in this case it was "Freeskiing" and "SKI BASE JUMPING". Chris Nolan was the same way, neither Rupert nor Chris come from the mountains, or a skiing background and somehow they just immediately understand it and absorb it. I would assume this is the case with everything they do. I hope to posses this sense of complete control and confidence as my career unfolds.

Note: The photo is actually a shot of the "Making of" Crew, the gal in the fur is Russian and hosting the "making of ...." So look for our crew on tv the next time you are surfing the channels in Moscow.

Cornellius Jones - AKA Chris Patterson

I can't take anything seriously. Facebook in particular.

I'm coming clean - Cornellius is me, it's my way of keeping tabs

on everyone while keeping a low profile.

Click here for my Facebook page.

Let's be friends.

Silverton Shoot - Russian Commercial

I just returned home from a quick and very productive week in Silverton, Colorado. I was working alongside my old posse of Warren Miller regulars, Tim Willison, Doug Millington, Tony Wilhelms, Colin Witherill and Logan Schneider. We were under the guidance of a well know director Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata). It went really well, some tough weather at times but in the end it all came together. We had Mark Hyrma with us as well Cineflexin' - which is always great. It was a TV spot for a Russian oil company. Ski BASE from Jesse Hall went well - he is a great dude to work with. Aaron and Jenn at Silverton were great and super supportive of our unusual requests. Alex, Fabio and T Bird did a great job of leading us into and out of the goods. Of course there was our heli pilots Jim Dirker with the camera ship and Andrew moving the Silverton heli around the high peaks of the San Juans.

Waiting for the snow to fall.....

Cheers

Chris

Recap - the end of 2010...

So yes it's been awhile since I last updated. My bad.

I last reported from Munich and the Adelholzener Shoot - well, I edited for a week in Munich and lined up the Visual FX shots with the digital crew (Rico) at Arri and then we raced back to the Jungfrau region of Switzerland for a day of shooting skiing for the spot. We had tremendous good fortune and nailed our timing, during the week of editing, it just pounded snow in the mountains of Switzerland, a fresh meter of powder welcomed us on our crystal clear shoot day, keep in mind it was now the last week of October and we had a heli and a meter of new snow to shoot with. Needless to say the day went very well, super cold -20f, a real shocker when you are used to summer and flip flops. Six weeks later the visual FX guys have worked some movie magic, sadly I can't show it till March when the spot airs in German.

I came home for a week and then Jim Klug and I had a Confluence Films trip to East Africa - a remote part of Tanzania to be exact - this time TIGER FISH! Jeff Currier a world class fly fisherman and globetrotter joined us for some incredible shooting. Stunning landscapes, real wild Africa, it was a dream trip. The piece we shot is a segment in the next film we are producing via Jim and my company Confluence Films, the film will be released in November and to date we have shot in Japan, Maine and Africa.... still to do - Cuba, Alaska and Yellowstone Park.

I returned home and we(Chris @ Ranch Exit Films and I) quickly pulled together another great shoot for Saatchi & Saatchi and their long time client Toyota. A week in the snow shooting cars, it was great, Montana had a lot of early snow this winter and we managed to shoot downtown Bozeman, around Montana State University and up in the alpine around Hyalite Lake. It's a great crew and always fun to share a place we love with good friends.

Holidays of course offered loads of time to ski, skate, sled and sip Hot Coco with the family.

Now here in early 2011 I'm headed to Southern Colorado - Silverton Mountain to be exact to shoot a commercial for a Russian Oil Company, it's a 2014 Olympic partnership spot that has a ski chase and ski B.A.S.E jump in it. Should be fun, I love the area and shooting in the San Juans is always a pleasure.

I promise to update more regularly.... it's my New Year's resolution

Happy New Year!

Thanks for your interest

Chris