Esbjörn Svensson Trio - What Though The Way May Be Long, from the album Viaticum.
I began training parkour around 2004 at a time when the discipline was not well known, and was even less understood by myself as well as many others who had been inspired by videos of David Belle, and his unique displays of strength, speed and agility in his home town of Lisses, France. The practice of using the environment as both a means of strengthening the mind and body, as well as a playground, obstacle course and place of exploration and discovery, blurred for me the boundaries between exercise, philosophy and art, and continues to influence my way of viewing the world today.
I made this video and wrote the accompanying text with the intention of showing a different way of practising and thinking, which was less dramatic, more contemplative, and altogether different from what was seen in the majority of videos at the time. Almost eight years after it was filmed, this video represents for me not just an important moment in my own history, but also an art that is vanishing beneath shallow, diluted forms of its original potential.
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30 янв 2008
