Better Up There | The Story of Léo Slemett is an intimate documentary portrait of French freeride skier Léo Slemett that goes far beyond competition highlights and powder footage. Directed by alpinist-filmmaker Mathis Dumas, the film traces Slemett's journey from a talented Chamonix kid to a Freeride World Tour standout, while focusing less on results and more on the personal struggles that shaped him along the way.
pairing it with an '80s-inspired synth-pop palette. The album's closing track, power ballad "Appetite," is even an ode to desire itself: "I'm chewing you up, chewing you up," she chants on the rousing coda, refusing to apologize for going after what she wants. It recalls the delicious sensory abundance of a Mary Oliver poem: "there is no end/...to the happiness your body/is willing to bear."
I remember my first time being committed to a psychiatric hospital. I had been living homeless and delusional outside for 13 months, and felt life was exciting and free. Unaware that I was suffering, I told myself that it was okay to get caught outside in rainstorms and that looking for food in the garbage to eat every day was an acceptable part of life.