- Wingsuit base jumping is an extreme sport in which the pilot jumps from high peaks often above cloud level, navigating their way back to earth through forests and past cliff faces at speeds up to 240 kph. 'Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist' is a contemplative film; combining stunning photography with a podcast-inspired conversation with Ellen Brennan who is known within the wingsuit-community as a true artist. She's the fastest flying woman in the world, residing amongst the mountains in Chamonix Mont-Blanc she spends her days and sometimes nights looking for suitable cliffs from which she can soar. Ellen refer to these suitable cliffs as 'exits'.—Empty Chairs
- American Ellen Brennan is the fastest woman in the world. In her small wing suit, she takes off from mountains high above the clouds and fly close to trees and cliffs at top speeds around 150 mph. More than an adrenaline rush she's looking for an alternative way of life. *Watch in HD
- In free fall from a peak at 240 km/h in a flight suit. A philosophy of life converted into a dizzying practice by a very brave woman. When Ellen Brennan throws herself from a mountain peak above the clouds in a flight suit and falls towards the ground at 240 km/h wearing a small GoPro camera on her helmet, you have to be made of steel not to become dizzy by her audacity and defiance of death. Ellen is a solitary woman in the male-dominated world of base jumpers. An extreme sport where one's career typically lasts a maximum of 5 to 6 years. But Ellen is more than just an exceptional athlete with nerves of steel on the lookout for an adrenaline boost. 'Looking for Exits' is a portrait of a woman for whom the dizzying flights in the mountains is an entirely practical manifestation of a larger outlook on life, which the journalist and director Kristoffer Hegnsvad gives a cinematic form in his latest film. 'Exits' is not just the base jumpers' professional term for the places to jump off. It is also a way to approach the world on your own terms, and it takes place in free fall.—Cph:Dox
- An athlete and airborne artist, Ellen Brennan flies above the clouds with her special suit at 240 kilometers per hour. As if she was a current version of Henry David Thoreau or a flying Nietzsche, the filmmaker explores the philosophical side of an unpredictable woman.—Bafici
- First-person photography of Brennan flying off one cliff after another is a pulse-pounding spectacle to behold, but filmmaker Kristoffer Hegnsvad offers an equally compelling philosophical angle on the life of this remarkable athlete. Far more contemplative than most extreme sport films, Looking for Exits casts Brennan's incredible feats in a metaphysical light. Revealing conversations capture the contradictions apparent in someone who clearly lives life to the fullest, but defies death on a daily basis. Although Brennan knows that something could go wrong with any jump, she can't help but keep living her dream. A "normal life" just isn't in the cards for her. Interstitial sequences of ordinary people in Chamonix going about their lives while Brennan floats high above highlights the contrast between her current existence and the one she may be forced to live one day. -CP—Doxa Vancouver
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