{"id":388,"date":"2018-05-26T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=388"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T15:26:36","slug":"imagination-a-film-about-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/imagination-a-film-about-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination: A Film about the Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cImagination is more important than knowledge.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n<p>Our society seems to take imagination for granted rather than to pay tribute to those brilliant humans who have walked the Earth.\u00a0 Director Dave Mossop&#8217;s short film, <em>Imagination: Tom Wallisch<\/em>, is an homage to imagination, especially to J. P. Auclair, who died\u00a0tragically during an avalanche in 2014 at the age of thirty-seven, and who was the subject of Mossop&#8217;s earlier film,\u00a0<em>J.P. Auclair Street Segment- All.I.Can<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YVQ5s6ePeI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mountainfilm Festival has always been devoted to documentaries, but <em>Imagination: Tom Wallisch <\/em>is an exception to the tradition.\u00a0 Just four minutes long, and not featuring any interviews, or voice-overs, it should really be classified as a short film instead of a documentary.\u00a0 A middle school boy, James, is driven to school by his parents, who are in the middle of a boring conversation.\u00a0 James begins to use his fingers to simulate skies, pretending he is skiing a hill.\u00a0 He soon sees a man freeskiing on the side of the road, jumping over cars, grinding on rails, skiing on rooftops, and sliding down the street in a virtuoso display of athleticism.<\/p>\n<p>The parents never see the skier, so we are led right away to believe that it is the boy\u2019s imagination.\u00a0 The skier continues to follow the car, and performing more and more dangerous ski stunts.\u00a0 Once the family arrives at the school, we see that all the town&#8217;s children are now skiers doing awesome stunts.\u00a0 This film answers our wonder about how anything can be possible.<\/p>\n<p>By showing the young boy board in a car, then suddenly seeing an amazing freeskier skiing through his town, <em>Imagination<\/em> reminds us that even with little resources, anything is possible.\u00a0 Music is synchronized perfectly with the skier as he glides through the town.\u00a0 Also, the re-creation of J.P. Auclair\u2019s street segment features insane tracking shots, close-ups, low-angle, crane shots all over the place.\u00a0 Every time it seems the skier will crash, he finds a sharp way to avoid a crash, and continues with his route, to James\u2019s amazement.<\/p>\n<p>David Mossop directed <em>J.P. Auclair Street Segment- All.I.Can <\/em>back in 2011, and <em>Imagination: Tom Wallisch<\/em>.\u00a0 Mossop made this film as a homage to Auclair, and he hired professional freeskier, Tom Wallisch to play the part of the skier going around the town performing dangerous stunts on everything that comes into his path.\u00a0 Mossop&#8217;s\u00a0 every shot captures James\u2019s imagination and the danger of the stunts that are performed by Tom Wallisch.\u00a0 Mossop may not be present in the film, but his statement about imagination and achieving the impossible is pervasive throughout.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"wp-image-390 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/sherpa-cinemas-imagination-hed-2017-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/sherpa-cinemas-imagination-hed-2017-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/sherpa-cinemas-imagination-hed-2017-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/sherpa-cinemas-imagination-hed-2017-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/sherpa-cinemas-imagination-hed-2017.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Wallisch jumping from rooftops in Imagination: Tom Wallisch<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Imagination: Tom Wallisch <\/em>reminds us about the times in our lives when we felt powerless, mainly when we were children.\u00a0 But the film also reminds us of how anything is possible.\u00a0 In a comedic shot that brings into question if the parents simply can&#8217;t see the free-skiier beside them, or just don&#8217;t notice, <em>Imagination\u00a0<\/em>reminds us to always be looking for the next great moment as well.\u00a0All we have to do is open our minds, see what we want, and strive towards achieving that goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagination is more important than knowledge.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Albert Einstein. 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