Ciarán | Filmmaker | Photographer

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It’s time, it’s time… something that’s be

It’s time, it’s time… something that’s been on loop in my head for quite a while now.

And it came to me that it’s been 12 years now since the creation of @12productions . Twelve beautiful years since I spent twelve hours with a dislocated shoulder in the New Zealand bush. That moment seems so far away now. So in a way it’s normal that those words have been coming at me for the past few months. It’s time for what you might say?

But first I asked myself, why? Why did I start filming in the first place, why did I decided to capture moments in time, put them together and create what for me was the best way to tell a story of a moment I lived.

It’s a mixture a many things, but mainly it was capturing what beauty was and is for me, convey a feeling. It’s so subjective, you cannot define any of that, it’s personal.

I did my best in feeding those values I held dear and grew with them as I grew as a being going through the experiences that life had for me.

So here we are now. It’s time, it’s time to transform, to let go of what was and leave space for what is. What is cannot be defined, but there are things at work in the background.

Twelve Productions is closing its chapter. It’s a chapter being closed not a book, the story evolves and takes on new characters.

I thank everyone that has followed the journey, supported us along the way.

This space will stay as is like a digital version of our story even though is goes deeper than any of that.

Cheers

Ciarán

“Too many words cause exhaustion. Better to abid

“Too many words cause exhaustion. Better to abide in stillness” Lao Tzu

Comp of two frames blended to get details out of the moon 🌝

It's out on NETFLIX! Here's the trailer. In 2017

It's out on NETFLIX! Here's the trailer.

In 2017 we went back to Pakistan to film and document @scottlindgren_ 's 4th and final descent of the 4 rivers that flow out of Mount Kailash in Tibet, the last one being the Rondu Gorge on the Indus.

I ended up editing a 52min movie from it. But it turned out that there was a bigger story to tell than simply this descent. There was a story about someone reaching the highest of highs and lowest of lows throughout his life path. I didn't take part in what followed but happy to see what the team at @riverrootscrew did and also putting kayaking on a platform like NETFLIX.

It's more than just a kayak movie. It's a movie about life and it has kayaking as a vessel to move through the sections of life. I'll let you take away what you need to take from it. It definitely resonated with me deeply as I've had to confront my own shadows.🙏

Again well done to the whole crew and especially to @rushsturges for the amazing job on this one!

Happy Netflix and chill 👌

C

“No. Cruel is a good word for her. But I think y

“No. Cruel is a good word for her. But I think you are saying cruel and thinking of something else. She is not wicked, or mean, or spiteful. She is cruel."

“She’s a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of her." Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

2 days ago before it just started to rain cats and

2 days ago before it just started to rain cats and dogs, we decided to skin up a classic local route, the Mont Jovet . It was a glorious day surrounded by friends, a breathtaking landscape and amazing snow.

Check the last slide for the BTS video of some of the photos.

Thanks mother nature for allowing us to have fun on your winter coat 🙏🏻❄️

I could tell you how it feels like, but it will ne

I could tell you how it feels like, but it will never replace the way you’ll feel about it when you experience it for yourself ❄️❤️

“Yesterday.... all my troubles seem so far away.

“Yesterday.... all my troubles seem so far away...”
Another day another ski tour. Yesterday we decided to head up the Petit Chatelet summit and it was well worth it. It always reminds me of Sylvain Tesson’s quote “Is alpinists masochism suffering to reach summits or coming back down to the world of men once at the top?”

6am started to skin up surrounded by silence, the

6am started to skin up surrounded by silence, the sound of the skis while I made the first trace up the Mont Rosset with maybe 40cm of fresh snow. My neighbour started skinning up 1h after me, caught up with me just before the summit as I was struggling to move forward. As he arrived behind me he says “Thanks for making the first trace, I’ll take it from here so you can relax to the summit”
Those are the days, the moments you keep with you for a while.

“A hind is a female deer. A wild deer. Do you kn

“A hind is a female deer. A wild deer. Do you know how much good it does you to chase a wild thing? None.” Kvothe in The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Not much snow, frew scrappy turns but felt good to be out and up where we could see a horizon line 🙏🏻🏔

L’Imbut - means funnel (entonnoir) in Provençal

L’Imbut - means funnel (entonnoir) in Provençal dialect.

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