The tour has been created and conceived by the team behind Vertical Life to celebrate its relaunch following COVID-19 hibernation, and it will make its debut through November and December 2020 with a national cinema tour. This year’s tour includes four films that celebrate life in the vertical.
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground explores the paradox of grief within climbing, an activity sought out for the joy and vibrancy it provides, but one that also exposes individuals to risk and the potential for tremendous grief and loss.
Valhalla documents the search for something unique in a remote and wild place. Edu Marín, his father Francisco ‘Novato’ and his brother Álex, embark on an uncertain adventure, in which their determination to conquer the largest roof in the world is absolute. The great arch of Getu is the setting for a story of joy, tears, unexpected obstacles, adverse weather, friendship and climbing.
Lucy Stirling: Olympic Dream, a short film by Australian filmmaker Matt Raimondo, follows Queensland climber Lucy Stirling as she sets her sights on realising the big one, the Olympic Dream.
Out of the Blue is an original independent film not previously released. Blending and blurring climbing, slack lining and circus arts in a unique and visually stunning way. The film has an original score by rising talent Josue Vergara.
VALHALLA
VL SPEAKS TO SPANISH CLIMBER, EDU MARÍN, ABOUT HIS ASCENT OF VALHALLA IN GETU, CHINA.
Your father mentions you didn’t climb together for 15 years, although you started climbing together when you were young. What does it say about how father-son relationships change over time?
Indeed. I did start climbing
