My Playground
51 minutes /
All ages /
2010 /
Denmark /
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Arts / Documentaries / Foreign / Sports
A film about the impact of modern movement in urban space.
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Kaspar Astrup
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"My Playground" explores the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the spaces and buildings they are moving on are changing them. Mainly set in Copenhagen the film follows Team JiYo as they explore the city and encounter the obstacles it presents.
Award winning architect Bjarke Ingels, (founder of BIG Architects), is fascinated by the way Team JiYo interact with architecture. He takes the team to his buildings to explore and unfold their skills, which may be just as groundbreaking as the architecture itself.
The film travels around the world from Denmark to Japan, United States, United Kingdom, and China to explore where urban mobility is heading. Team JiYo has a dream of making the biggest dedicated parkour park in the world; but isn’t parkour and Freerunning supposed to be in the city and not in a fixed environment?
Crew
Music: Mikkel MetalMusic: Broadcast 2000
Additional Photography: Team Jiyo
Additional Photography: American Parkour
Sound Designer: Jacques Pederson
Sound Designer: Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival -- Audience Award (Nominated)
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
Beautiful. Dance-like tone poem. Kind of awesome.
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2 months ago
For a film about playing in space, it's awesome how "My Playground" plays with its own storytelling form. Fun and very worth a watch!
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
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4 months, 1 week ago
Watch this documentary! Fantastic visuals and incredible Free-Running sequences. This doc also illuminates a global sub-culture I had no idea existed.
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6 months, 2 weeks ago
An amazing and exciting film, which brings to life the sociology of urban space and the underground sports subculture of parkour and freerunning.
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8 months, 2 weeks ago
Great!!