By Ryan Grenoble, Source: Huffington Post

Night skiing is for chumps. Unless, of course, you’re wrapped head to toe in a custom suit embedded with LEDs, while jumping off cliffs in a remote part of Canada. Then it’s art.

That’s the surreal basis for the Lightsuit Segment in Sweetgrass Productions’ latest ski movie, “Afterglow.” Filmed in collaboration with Swedish ad agency Ahlstrand & Wållgren and Philips TV, the three-minute flick, which producers say took “a national government’s worth of logistics, planning, and civil engineering” to pull off, is absolutely mesmerizing.

We caught up with one of the film’s directors, Nick Waggoner, for some insight into the Lightsuit Segment and its unique tribute to the inner light we find in the deep woods on a dark night.

So, how’d you come up with the idea for the light suit segment?

Nick Waggoner: The LED suit was a product of our collaboration with Swedish agency Ahlstrand and Wållgren and Philips TV. It was this visceral way to represent their new Ambilight TV and its style of glowing color and light. The world of skiing and snow happened to be the perfect way to show that off, so it perfectly paired with what we wanted to do with a night skiing segment — to bring a totally new aesthetic to skiing.

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