Sprinters - Excerpt

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An excerpt from the Royal Television Society nominated 2008 short documentary, Sprinters:

A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season. Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

Directed by Sam Blair
Cinematographer Jean-Louis Schuller
Editor Maya Maffioli
Composer Gareth Lockrane
Sound Supervisor Steen Bondrop
Dubbing Mixer Linda Brenon
Sound Editors Dominic Fitzgerald, Ricardo Fonseca, Gunnar Oskarsson
Sound Recordist Jon Boothroyde
Online Editor/Colour Grader John Kelly

Festivals:
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Munich International Festival of Film Schools
Visions du Réel
EntreVues
Premiers Plans
Dinard British Film Festival
Monterrey International Film Festival


"We are all familiar with sportscasts images:
sprinters hunched over in their starting
blocks, waiting for the starting pistol, long-
distance athletes running round after round
on the tartan track. They have become a com-
mon sight for TV viewers. In Sprinters, Sam
Blair wrests fascinating new images from this
apparent normality. In the course of the two
months preceding the seasons start, he
accompanied a handful of British sprinters
during their training once again highlight-
ing the extraordinary.

Blair has shot his film strictly from an
observers perspective, without interviews or
statements. In a rigorous image-sound com-
position nurtured by an aesthetic camera and
implacable editing, the filmmaker bends his
theme into shape, delivering a breathtaking
account of the brutality of everyday training,
in which winning and losing, exploits and
failures, are separated by a hundredth of a
second."

Visions Du Réel Catalogue

©NFTS 2008

Category:

Film & Animation

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• athletics
• documentary
• short
• film
• nfts
• olympic
• sprinters
• british
• sprinting
• jeanette
• kwakye
• sam
• blair
• 100
• meters

[IvanPlutiNZ]

were can i find the full film?

[sicknotesam]

@IvanPlutiNZ Download link for film is now in the info on the right.

[sicknotesam]

For anyone interested in seeing the full film which runs at 17 minutes please send me a message and I will give you details. Thanks.

[bluesbreaker101]

What a truly beautiful film. Absolutely fantastic.

[dannyboom1]

Where can I see the whole thing? Looks good!

[anUHkins]

I think the thing that makes running so hard is, unlike volleyball/football/basketball­, you don't get to think "we might win, it might hurt today, who knows" you know it's going to hurt, and you know atleast if your even a contender to win/lose based on your time.

[Tyrannosaurmedia]

Love this. Nice footage.

[MrWorldbefree]

fuck I can't do that shit my knees hurt

[Churchboy03]

Thanks alot, i've been waiting for you to put the link up, I thought you'd forget, thanks alot!!

[dls2779]

can u please send me the link

[rendinma]

i would also like to see the full film how do i do so?

[tyboi13]

i wud like 2 see the full vid