Shred flicks are meant to inspire. To just get us out there and ride. They’re that simple. And while surfers can pack movie houses for the premiere of a new flick and then wake up and catch a few waves the next morning — the film’s soundtrack still ringing in their ears — the fall premiere of a new snowboarding flick brings an entirely different level of energy. For the folks living in the mountains, these months are nothing but anticipation for opening day. So Ben Ferguson’s Fleeting Time is the kind of film made to fuel that fire as much as it feeds off our anticipation for the first storm of the season, bluebird mornings, backcountry days, and fresh powder.
“The film is an homage to the movies I grew up watching as a kid — fast-paced snowboarding and heavy-hitting music to match. I hope our movie makes you want to snowboard,” Ferguson says.
Made over the course of two years, Ferguson and his crew visited Whistler, British Columbia; McCall, Idaho; Jackson, Wyoming; Haines and Valdez, Alaska; Lake Tahoe, California; Japan, and they filmed at home in Oregon at Mt. Bachelor and Mt. Hood. It highlights deep powder days and massive peaks, natural terrain and manmade — basically anything that people daydream about the moment the air starts to get a little cooler and the days a little shorter.
If you’ve been globetrotting and scoring in the southern hemisphere all summer then that appetite has been satiated for months. But if you’ve been twiddling your thumbs, season pass in hand since spring, and sitting at home recycling your collection of films each night, then Ferguson’s newest project should accomplish exactly what it was meant for: to make you want to go snowboarding.
