Video: 'Short Ends' Is a 17-Minute Finnish Mountain Bike Movie Shot on Film

“A short end is a partial roll of unexposed film stock left over during a motion picture production and kept for later use.”


In 2018, I was talking with my colleagues in the Finnish film industry - DoP Jouko Piipponen and DoP Ari Virem. We discussed that we should shoot some kind of short biking film, maximum length would be approximately 2 minutes. At first, we thought that we will just shoot this on Super8, but when we realized that there are quite a few short ends in people’s fridges in 16mm and 35mm format, we decided to use all of the gauges.


After 3 years of irregular filming, the movie is ready. The length is 17 minutes with end credits (so this went a bit out of hand but that happens!)

We ended up to shoot this on these film formats:

Assorted short ends (16mm & 35mm)
Stock Super 16mm: Kodak Vision 3 200T, 250D and 500T
Stock Super 35mm: Kodak Vision 3 500T
Stock Super8: Kodak Tri-x, Ektachrome and 200T

This film is all about Karu mountain biking crew and friends around it.


I want to thank everyone who was a part of this project. Especially I want to thank Artturi Mutanen because without him this would never have been done on film. Without Matias Boettge, Jani Lehtinen, Sami Rehmonen, Juho Salaterä, Antris Bonsdorff and David Brickhill-Jones, result of this movie would be a lot poorer.


Crewlist



Best regards,

Aaro Visala
Producer, director, editor and one of the rider of Short Ends movie



Cinematographers Jouko Piipponen and Ari Virem doing things. Photo: Aaro Visala

This shot was made with Arri 416 w/ 800mm T8 lens, 500T Kodak Vision 3 film

Ari Virem and Sami Rehmonen with Arri 435 & Cooke Zoom lens. Photo: Aaro Visala

Frame from the movie: Ossi Keisala and Riku Mertala going for a flight

Aaro Visala and Gimbal operator Jyri-Matti Holm adjusting Arri 235 camera on cable cam. Photo: Sami Rehmonen

Frame from the movie: Ville Ormo Flying at Calmageddon jump line

Sami Rehmonen with Ronin 2 Gimbal on ATV. Photo: Aaro Visala

Grips Joonas Saine, Anton Vikström and Otto Gagneur prepping for a night shoot. Photo: Jouko Piipponen

Arri SR3 and 416 in camera prep. Photo: Jouko Piipponen