Matt’s Blog

I practically came running home from the Banff film festival this year.  It was so impressive I wanted to get some of it down, but of course, all the great things that it made me think of are gone now.  For those who have never been, Banff is a festival for films about the outdoors.  You mostly see great expeditions and fantastic stunts by such incredible people.  And the films are extremely well filmed.

I was able to go both nights this year and I’m really glad I did.  The first night was great, but there was a little too much x-games type of thing going on.  There was one beauty though, called Asiemut about a French couple who biked from Mongolia to India.  Not only was the trip prodigious in nature, but this couple was just so in tune with it.  They knew just what it was about, and why they were pushing themselves so hard.  The human spirit is just so incredible, and I forget sometimes what we are capable of.  It really makes me feel ashamed of my own life sometimes when I see these types of experiences.  Thankfully though, no one is out there alone, and it’s really humanity achieving such heights, not just one person.

Tonight the films were even more impressive.  Honestly it’s hard to get all this out.  I don’t even really understand what seeing these films does to me.  It just inspires me such that I can’t even put it down.  Just make sure and check it out, here’s a link: http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/festivals/2007

You might have to google a bit to find out where it’s playing in your area, but it will be worth it, I promise.  Especially if you’re into the outdoors.