Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Unseen Olympics (2025) Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival

This is a meditative doc shot on out dated film at the 2023 Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU, the International University Sports Federation) Winter and Summer World University Games in Lake Placid in the United States and in Chengdu in the People’s Republic of China.

This old school film that harkens back to some of the sports documentaries of the 1970’s and 80’s. It’s a look not so much at the sports at the competition but everything going on around them. It’s a trippy little film that puts us in a specific head space that transcends the typical. It’s a film that is very much intent on putting us into a specific state on mind.

I was delighted. This film took me out of the room I was in and sent me somewhere else. I have no idea what I am supposed to get out of it, and frankly I don’t care. I don’t care because the film forced me to start to rethink not only about sports but about other things as well.

This is a glorious trip.

I can not wait to see this again- preferably on a huge theater screen.

Highly recommended.

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