Featured Image: Nimbus Independent | Skier: Eric Pollard
On Movie Monday, FREESKIER brings you free movies from the wide world of skiing. With a mix of old and new, this is where you can find your weekly dose of freeski history, adrenaline and cinema mastery all in one.
Eric Pollard has been at the heart of freeskiing for two decades. And while he is a prolific rider with a unique and recognizable style that would make any sane person stop in their tracks and watch, he is much more than just a skier. He is an artist, designer, ski engineer and businessman, having started his own company, Season epqt, a few years back. His dedication to aesthetic prowess has yielded incredible results over the years. “Drawn From Here” captures this unique vision in multiple ways. From the soundbites to the surreal cinematic shots to the artwork featured throughout, it’s an incredible look at the way Pollard views the word. And what a magnificent view it is.
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“Drawn From Here” is a film by Eric Pollard that opens with an exploration of his processes as a skier, as a ski/product designer, and as an artist. It follows the influences he draws from—like basing the shape of a ski tip off of a surfboard or finding patterns observed in nature to integrate into the graphics he hand draws for a ski—and illuminates a thread that runs through and binds all his different disciplines and hobbies.
About Eric Pollard: EP is a professional skier, artist, and designer from Welches, Oregon. For 20 of his 36 years he’s been professionally sponsored as a skier, but what defines the whole of his career over that time goes well beyond that one simple fact.
