Looking Sideways Episode: Elias Elhardt, Episode 90

Elias Elhardt’s film Contraddiction is a beautiful piece of work that is a treatise on the essential uselessness of the snowboarding lifestyle. It is that rare thing – an action sports film with a point of view beyond ‘Woo-hoo! Let’s shred’.

As you’ll see if you watch the film, Elias has a lot of very interesting things to say about snowboarding, but also about how these activities link to self awareness, and how perhaps there might be something more to this while business than sliding sideways. And how it might, as a professional, behove him to use his platform to investigate this possibility. In this he takes his place alongside peers such as Christian Haller, Jerome Tanon and David Benedek who are also exploring similar themes in their own work.

As you’ll know if you’re a regular listener of the show, these themes are right up my strasse, so while I was in Innsbruck in June 2019 I visited Elias at his place, and sat down to discuss these themes, and find out more about his new project which saw him spend five weeks in Kosovo.

I very much enjoyed my thought-provoking conversation with Elias and I hope you do too.

via Looking Sideways