The last few years have been… strange. It’s not all the time that the entire world goes through a pandemic, after all. It threw a lot of a wrenches in a lot of things. Travel was impossible for a while. Filming projects, too. But as time went on, some of the wrenches were pulled from the cogs and a sense of normalcy began to creep back in. Elles, a Vans snowboarding film created in collaboration with global team rider Arthur Longo and renowned snow film director Tanner Pendleton, was made in a time of great uncertainty.
Despite the hurdles, in February, 2021, Arthur Longo was able to start riding every day in Switzerland. He sent updates back to Pendleton, who was in New York. “Knowing what many were going through in other European countries during this same time, we took every single day as a blessing,” Arthur said of filming the project. “ We wanted to portray day-to-day snowboarding without trying to make it look more sexy than what it is. Discovering Switzerland more in depth was also a highlight.”
Elles, which features Longo, Hana Beaman, Blake Paul, Dan Liedahl, Mary Rand, Darrel Mathes and Parker Szumowski, isn’t about the pursuit of perfect conditions. Instead, it’s about doing what you can with what you have. And this crew can do a lot.
