Isenseven – Let’s Go Get Lost (2009)

2009 marked the 10 year anniversary of Isenseven which started back in 1999. LGGL was our 8th consecutive movie and the season was blessed with an awesome winter through out all of Europe. We managed to do so many cool trips in our home turf and spent loads of time at Arlberg, Hoch-Ybrig Switzerland and Norway which allowed the crew to stack some good footage over the months.

New riders this year were Alex Tank, Tom Klocker, Anton Gunnarsson and Marc Swoboda. Tank had been a friend since forever and now finally we were able to film a whole season with him and he delivered a solid fullpart. Anton Gunnarsson opened the film with his mayhem style and even more mayhem intro which we filmed at the Isenseven favorite club in Munich: The legendary Atomic Café. Fips & Tobi shared a part for the first time since …well?. Ludde & Torgeir redefined fun snowboarding in their shared part and Michi & Chris had probably the silliest intro of all times (not saying that’s a bad thing though). Fredrik was the first rider at Isen to have two different double corks on a powder jump in his part and Botner finally delivered a well deserved ender part that showed what an incredible rider he is.

But the most iconic part of LGGL was the outro featuring “Mindestens In Tausend Jahren” by Frittenbude. Vincent had moved to Portland for the winter and formed the US Isenseven base. In spring, Alex went to visit him and Travis Limoge in Portland and he told Vince about a song he had heard on FM4. They blasted it in the car on their iPod and immediately knew this song needs to be in the film. The song went on to become probably the most famous song of all our films and no premiere party was complete without the DJ playing this anthem and having thousands of premiere guests sing along and go crazy.

Unfortunately the year was also plagued by some tension between the producers. We were burnt out, been doing this for then years, vibes weren’t super happy anymore and things began to fall apart. At the end of the season we weren’t sure what the future of Isenseven would hold and there were some major changes to come. But where there’s a will, there’s a way (to be continued in the Don’t Panic! post)

Featured riders: André Kuhlmann, Michi Zirngibl, Fips Strauss, Tobi Strauss, Erik Botner, Ludwig Lejkner, Fredrik Evensen, Christophe Schmidt, Chris Patsch, Alex Tank, Tom Klocker, Anton Gunnarsson, Marc Swoboda, Torgeir Berre, Dani Rajcsanyi.