Live Stream Now Finished: 'The Old World' Features Some of Europe's Wildest Riding
A Tillmann Brothers film co-produced by Red Bull Media House. Watch it live for 24 hours here!
It's been 4 years since we the Tillmann Brothers kicked off 'The Old World' together with the help from Flo Moser from Red Bull Media House. We would have never thought that this project will dominate our lives the way it did over the next years. It was a crazy ride with 2 years of principal photography with round about 94 days of shooting and we are more than excited to finally show you the result. We put our heart and soul into this movie to achieve something that we can be proud of and that brings biking to the people to motivate them to go out and ride.
We could have never realised this project without the help of our amazing parters like Lutz Kugler from BMW, CJ Selig from Adidas | Five Ten, Tobias Keuthen from Vitec Group and Laura Kaufmann from Leitz Cine. Also we want to thank everyone who helped us throughout this crazy shoot from crew to athletes to tourism boards. Please take your time to also check out the credits of this movie to see who helped making it possible.
Finally we want to thank our friend Julian Mittelstädt who shot all these amazing pictures for our project and who helped wherever and whenever he could. Make sure you check him out on www.jmvotography.com! If you enjoyed this free livestream, want to support the filmmakers and still need a nice 4k HDR Dolby Atmos Christmas present make sure you keep your eyes peeled on iTunes over the next weeks. Another big shout out goes to the Red Bull Media House Equipment Pool, who helped immensely with this project as well as to the internal color and audio team from RBMH who we worked together with.
We are very proud to present you The Old World. From the first idea, over screenplay writing, producing, directing, shooting to editing 'The Old World' was created by the Tillmann brother trio Toni, Andi and Michi.
RIDERS
Chris Akrigg (GB), Bienve Aguado Alba (ESP), Rachel Atherton (GB), Diego Caverzasi (ITA), Matthias Dandois (FRA), Dawid Godziek (POL), Szymon Godziek (POL), Bruno Hoffmann (GER), Emil Johansson (SWE), Simon Johansson (SWE), Moritz Nussbaumer (GER), Nico Scholze (GER), Martin Söderström (SWE), Vincent Tupin (FRA) and Nico Vink (BEL).
Nico Vink can go big but also insanely low
Gearing up! With the help of of Holger Herfurth and Airtime Unlimited we set up a crazy cable cam setup in La Poma bikepark to show you this legendary spot from a new perspective!
Szymon doing Szymon things
No pain no gain. Shooting a movie like this takes everything out of filmcrew and athletes. Left to right. Director Andi Tillmann, flatland legend Matthias Dandois and freeride boss Vincent Tupin thinking about life.
The Old World is going new ways by shooting mountain bike and BMX in one movie. Building bridges no walls.
Michi and Toni Tillmann in the zone
Tillmann Brothers x Godziek Brothers
From left to right: Director of Photography: Toni Tillmann - Director and Executive Producer: Andi Tillmann - Head Editor: Michi Tillmann
Make sure you follow #TheOldWorldMovie to get all the updates and behind-the-scenes moments
Thanks for making it down so far and see you in the comments
! Words by: Andi Tillmann/Tillmann Brothers | Photos by: Julian Mittelstädt
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Might be because I had high expectations, but I feel pretty sure it’s just a really bad movie... definitely not gonna watch again, and usually watch MTB movies over and over and over.
Still a huge fan of Vink, Vinny T, la poma etc, but this movie, the music etc is just terrible IMO!
I had expectations : Red Bull média house, good riders line up, Europe focused (it really says this will make you proud of being in this place), time limited premiere.
Thanks for sharing btw
I bet they invested more time writing the comments and complaining than watching the actual movie
Last year commençal realised a commercial Film about a new bike and I enjoyed it : www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhHsdF7ZEU
I started the old movie "whats next": D.
Being straight - difficult not to think that they needed to make some "representation of underrepresented groups" because of some policies. So they pushed this storyline with this traveler and photograhper. At first it started interesting but after first riding segment it became some weird cringe. It looks like it could be a proper fictional road movie about this character, this Black guy cyclist, traveler and photographer. But it's cramed into one more MTB superstars edit. Or if they really want representation of underrepresented groups - they could just make film about riders from that social groups.
Featuring Brooklyn Bell for example (insta: badgal_brooky). Or biking guides of Nepal for example.
Disclamer - it's not hate comment, just how I feel, peace and love for everyone. I'm truely open for diversity and inclusivity when it is sincere.
The different approach with the scenes in between actually made great sense, because otherwise it would have been just a bunch of different people, locations and styles thrown into one bag.
Big up for @TillmannBrothers and @redbull for making this piece of art.
Check out their recent park/slopestyle video for a very different version of the same type of riding & tricks.
In case of the freeriders, it's genuine excitement. I like both: what they are doing and also how they are doing it. Maybe it's just easier to relate to their style of riding. I enjoy the idea of making your surroundings your playground
My main takeaway: I want to ride like Vinny T. Good lord, the way his rear wheel flies up out of his corner compressions. So damned powerful and stylish.
My feedback is that the connection between the b-story and riding segments was tenuous at best (he was looking into portals showing him the locations he photographed, but interpreted through the lens of amazing riding, I guess?)
I was also immediately taken out of the moment with too many lo-fi Super-16/DV tape shots. I know it's a very stylish thing to do in BMX edits these days, but when your 6K/8K cinematography looks THAT good, why intercut a bunch of low-res, noisy/grainy one-off shots that aren't really showing us anything? Just a pet peeve I've been developing.
These last years nothing made me more thrilled than the Semenuk/Revel raw edits...
this was a cinematographic showcase, not a bike-riding movie.
The focus was barely ever on the riding, it was always about making the shot look good rather than making the riding look good. Riding was barely on the level of cinematography too, the best riding and most 'novel' riding was Vinny T's part, but the quick cuts and perspective changes mixed in with close-up super slowmos made me seasick watching it.
this is a general problem with MTB Videos/productions, you can tell the producers are to riders themselves. They overproduce it and lose focus on the riding, film some damn lines, have some flow in the video, don't cut to a new angle every 0,5secs just because you can.
I feel bmx and skate movies have this dialled, go watch some class BMX videos for some inspiration on how to execute this perfectly while still keeping the focus on the riding. The best examples being Mutiny's let's get Mystical, Anthem 2 or Stay Fit imo.
Deathgrip bleibt damit immernoch mein absoluter Lieblings Bike Film.
I prefer enjoying the movie, appreaciating all the hard work behind it and the great riding. Thankful to watch this for free and if it would be the DVD era, I would have it in my collection (I have a lot movies from that time).
Ride on,
Marc
Well, not my favourite bicycle movie.
Maybe I'm just an old fart nowadays but I far more enjoy videos where the riders are genuinely having a good time, be it bikepacking, touring or ridiculously stupid jumps (like the fest stuff). I would put this film amongst the overly produced mtb/bike edits that just have no substance.
Just my two cents.
It was super cool to see a variety of riding disciplines and styles in one edit and the shots of Vinny and Szymon on fire were so sick too.
All in all I think these guys have done some awesome work in representing these riders in their own way, and with so many bike films and edits out, it’s cool to have differences between them!
Usually a headline that says "24 hour live stream" means someone is streaming live for 24 hours, so this sounds like it should have been a days worth of the creators chatting about the film, watching segments, maybe a full showing at some point or two, to actually match the headline.
They don’t deserve so much negativ comments! #schäftlarnerboys
My personal impression of the film is this.
The story in relation to the film title was not quite so conclusive to me. Some of the transitions were quite long.
About the realisation you can surely talk if it has to be so exaggeratedly effect-heavy :-)
Now to the actual film itself.
The first section with Martin Söderström was filmed and edited too hectically for me.
Especially the scenes when Martin is filmed from the front, I didn't like the way they were shot. Sometimes Martin was only half watched.
A larger angle of view would have been better here.
For me there was no flow, everything seemed to be quite rough.
The Dirt section was better in the settings.
Section Poland was in my eyes mega sick in a positive sense.
Fat jumps, great settings, nice atmosphere in relation to the light conditions.
Now we come to my favourite section Paris-Berlin .
As a non BMX street rider I have to say this was mega !!!!!
You let the riders have their say, which I would have liked to have seen in the other sections as well, and of course you really put them in the spotlight.
Especially the scenes in Paris were art for me!
We also laughed when we saw the BMW X6 with a BMX on the trailer hitch. :-) somehow it doesn't really fit
But it doesn't matter if you have BMW as a sponsor in your boat, they have to be shown.
The England section started out funny, but then I was a bit too fast with Rachel.
I really would have wished for a little more story.
You don't have to say much to Chris, an animal on two wheels ;-)
Super nice settings.
La Poma and Vincent Tupin were very well done at the end.
La Poma was nice, but what Vincent Tupin did was sick, the speed is insane. :-)
Musically and cinematically there was nothing to complain about. No wonder with the equipment. :-)
Written enough :-)
I thought it was a very successful film and a further improvement on the times of InFocus .
It is not coherent in all areas, but it does not have to be! And everybody who finds in shit can get something else.
There are so horny english trashbikevideos ala Rob Warner :-) Although he is already cult!
Please don't let some stupid comments here lead you astray.
Please continue !!!!
Nowadays internet is just too full of crazy fast, action filled 1 minute long instagram gopro edits and that's what we all got used to as a standard in mountain biking. But this movie definitely brings a next generation of filmmakers and tells us where cinematography will be just in couple of years. Absolutely inhaled all of the stunning landscape/nature/architecture shots - big fan of Europe obvs. so I definitely appreciated that. And the intimacy with the riders you've got in there - not a common thing to be able to do that across such a massive variety of athlethes. Just to be able to get all of these information out of them, hats down guys! Would absolutely watch it again, I hope there will be a big movie screening at some point.
My 8yr old wants to see it again-- where do I find it?! It's no longer on Red Bull TV.
One of my favorite action sports moves at the moment, not mtb
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1rzmrs4LIs&t=391s
-redbull media house
"Sure"
-pinkbike user
"cool, watch me develop this picture of a mountain"
-redbull media house, probably
i guess all the "haters" compare it with NWD-kinda movies but that´s not working maybe they´ll get it later....
How can you haters criticize on that high level and they say "it was a bad movie" ??!
Because YOU didn't like the music or YOU didn't like the scenes in between?
The music was perfect for the scenery and if you don't like the scenes in between, ya than grab your crisps or something else.
These are no arguments to say it's a bad movie. Also in my opinion the scenes in between sometimes felt long but that's nothing what destroys a movie like this. The bike riding was perfect captured and put in perfect scenery, so it is just an amazing film and amazing work of film art.
Don't be so critical guys, enjoy the bike riding and be open for something strange but you can't say it was a bad movie when think about how biking was captures in this movie.
Thanks!
Odd subplot, but it’s easy to skip over stuff.
Not too shabby and free to viewers, what’s not to like?
Beauty of bikemovie!!????????????