Parkour, literally (part 5)

"The object of parkour is to get from one place to another in the most efficient way possible using only the human body and the objects in the environment" (wikipedia).
This is what this film is about: finding the most efficient path through our environment going from a point A to a point B. This concept of efficience relates to different parameters, such as speed, fluidity, security, carefulness, capability to adapt to any situation, and economy of energy. In consequence, this is what we try to reach when we make these videos, and so we try to keep these various parameters in mind while drawing our path and filming it.
Anyway, as it is a film, we don't just do things, but choose to show the things we do and try to do it in an aesthetic and artistic way. That implies choices that sometimes prevent us from being the most efficient we could if we would not be making a film. In these cases, we just take things on the "kid thinking" side, and pretend we cannot touch the floor for example because it's lava. Anyway, don't worry, I am conscious there is no lava...but there could have been -and maybe there will be some in the future-!
Anyway, this run I did is only made of simple movements: no big jumps or high drops, no intentionally hard things; efficiency is made of simplicity and safety.
Also, we decided to make a shorter episode, with only one run, so the film shows one long movement made of movements, as - we think- parkour should be.
This film contains one run by L'1consolable, in La Défense (France). It has been recorded in July 2013.
A film by Benoît Yin.
Traceur: L'1consolable
Filming & editing: Benoît Yin
Original soundtrack by L'1consolable.
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