Faction

Ski movie trailers as a mirror of society: last season, some lockdown ski home videos still focused on the new and unfamiliar situation and went "ski touring" in gardens and living rooms. This year, having arrived in a new normality, the cinematic focus is on nature experiences in the immediate vicinity with the closest crew.

The characters in ski films are as diverse as skiing itself: always the same and yet always different. This may mean that a protagonist can always ski and usually does so on snow, only the how, where and why differ. So in this episode we meet old and new heroes who live and film this eternally beautiful skiing in their own way.

In recent years, I have occasionally wondered whether the ski movie format still exists at all, whether it was just that its fascination had waned due to familiarization, or whether it was just the absence of Videos of the Week? The trailers for the new season at least give us hope for longer, imperial entertainment. And here, too, we are once again granting larger productions more space and finally having our free world saved by already familiar lone fighters!

In addition to the Candide Thovex Pro models, Faction also has a second backcountry/freeski line in its range - the Prodigy series. We extensively tested the widest model, the Prodigy 4.0, last winter. Find out what makes this ski so special and what you can use a freestyle-oriented twin tip with a 112 mm waist width for here in the test.

After some of the more experimental works of recent years (think Ruin and Rose, for example), the trend for major productions in 2019 is once again moving in the direction of: "Story - what's that?" In the semi-professional home video sector, the focus is increasingly on sustainability and most films - in contrast to the previous year - no longer consist of 90% drone footage. Time- and roadless it's off to winterland!

Just like last year, the ski brands represented at the trade fair are becoming fewer and fewer. After the absence of the major Amer Sports brands Atomic and Salomon (and therefore also Armada) since last year, Black Crows, for example, is now also missing.