
Freerunning Iceland
Six young men in Iceland spend 2009 and 2010 filming themselves freerunning across the country's lava fields, cliffs, and urban edges, funded through the EU's Youth in Action programme as a national youth initiative. The camera follows them vaulting and climbing over rugged, often unforgiving terrain, pairing the physical footage with interviews from two of the discipline's founders: John "Kearbie" Kerr and Sebastian Foucan, who talk through how freerunning and parkour started and spread. Their commentary sits alongside the group's own attempts, so the film works as both a demonstration and a short history lesson, tracing a sport built around finding a path through obstacles rather than around them. Iceland's landscape does double duty as backdrop and challenge, with the terrain itself shaping what moves are even possible. Made by amateurs rather than professional crews, the film has the rough edges of a youth project, but the access to Kerr and Foucan gives it a direct line to the people who defined the sport in its early years.