Matchstick Productions

The Alp-Con Cinema Tour is once again traveling through Austria and bringing spectacular films with it! As in previous years, the film program is a successful mix of top international productions and works by local filmmakers. Just in time for the start of the season, the Alp-Con Cinema Tour is back on the big screen with its snow film block and the new MSP film.

After a turbulent 2020, the Alp-Con Cinema Tour is back on the road in Germany and Austria as usual, bringing spectacular films with it. As in previous years, the tour will show various stories from a wide range of sports. The tour is divided into three different film blocks so that personal passion is not neglected: BIKE, MOUNTAIN and SNOW.

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.

Matchstick Productions, responsible for films such as Claim? and Days of My Youth,?? are taking a different approach with this year's Ruin and Rose. With Ben Sturgulewski, previously with Sweetgrass, a producer known for more thoughtful ski films takes the helm. With MSP, he continues his style and mixes the ski action with a post-apocalyptic desert story, which is given as much space as the ski scenes. PGler Brecher has a clear opinion on this.

Markus Eder from Val Pusteria has been the figurehead of Italian freeskiing for several years now. After a career in the park and an Olympic participation in slopestyle in Sochi, Markus can now be seen more and more in powder. He has been on the Freeride World Tour for several years and also films freeride segments with MSP, one of the biggest ski film productions in the world (Days of my Youth, Superheros of Stoke and many more). On Thursday 29 October 2015, "Fade to Winter" celebrates its European premiere in Innsbruck. We took this as an opportunity to ask Markus a few questions about his work with MSP and his plans for the winter.

MSP's countless award-winning films have been delivering one "must-see? flick after flick. This year's masterpiece The way I see it is no exception. In addition to breathtaking freeride and freestyle shots, the innovative POV shots and the freestyle elements of the athletes on the dream slopes of Alaska are particularly impressive.

Whether "Claim" is the best ski film of all time remains to be seen. In any case, the MSP crew have a good sense of humor and (self-)irony. As before, potential further developments of skiing in impossible terrain are not to be missed. This time, instead of a base jump, a small paraglider, skis and the extreme terrain around Chamonix! A wild mixture. But this is certainly not the highlight of the movie. The highlight is once again the camera work that captures the outstanding performance of the riders on the memory card. Worth mentioning is the performance of the young Sean Petit, who makes his debut in a beautiful sequence. Personally, I was impressed by Kaj Zackrisson's part. He got across what he needed to get across: The feeling! Yeeeha!

A tree is set on fire to perhaps bring more light into the darkness, or the MSP crew wants to protect the North American forests from bark beetles? Since both seem rather absurd to me, there is only one thing left to say: pointless action! That concludes the worst contribution in this year's MSP strip.