A few words for Eric Simard

DrewLederer

DrewLederer

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Hey Tyler from PBP here. I'm under the Fatmans account lilhorsey's

password got taken from me/us. whoever changed that is a d-bag. I

want the community to know that Simard was a righteous dude!

I

got the privilege to shoot with him during " Resons" and i have to say

that he has changed my filming style forever. You see,.... Eric had a

style/swagger about him that i hadn't fully appreciated. Eric filmed

things as a Cinematographer would, not as a filmier. He Focused on the

moments......the best parts of the trick.....the best parts of the shot.

This was a new approach to me! I had alway given great attention to

documenting a trick from start to finish. One Love Simard!

I'm deeply saddened by loosing a good friend and will miss him dearly .

One thing i will do know is that every time i looking thorough my

camera is i will ask myself how Simard would film it. He sets the

standard. Big ups to Simard. My condolences to the Quebec crew. I

feel for your loss.

I love Simard, That's Real.

I'm balling my eyes out watching his footage .

 
what?

And RIP. Always sad to lose a member of the community, especially one with such vision and a great eye for a shot.
 
to be honest, i'd never heard of simard until i heard this news. but upon watching his demo reel, i realized that i've definitely been appreciating his work for some time and have definitely been influenced by his filming style.
it's sad to lose one of our own, RIP buddy
 
Even though I only got to meet Eric a couple of times, he was a super chill dude with an huge passion for skiing - and i think that was reflected in all of his shots like Tyler said. More often than not, his shots we're too 'slow motion' and 'artsy' for the average person to throw in any 'ol high adrenaline edit. Yet reflecting back on them, I realize it was because he savored each individual moment of skiing way more than anyone else could ever comprehend. Both his personal work, and his shots in Jib Jam, Reasons and EDIAS will always be remembered for their composition and unique flavor...and I'm sure that the shots he got for 'Revolver' will be no different.

Again, even though I didn't know him as well as some others here, I'll never forget the words of advice he gave me and the effect he left on my 'ski movie experience'. He'll be missed here, for sure.

But on the other hand, I'm sure he's up there shooting some crazy slo-mo, rack-focusing dolly shots of McConkey hucking cliffs we can only imagine! Hot damn

RIP

 
Eric was such a talented individual. We met last year at Jay Peak when the Meats were filming during one of the best storms in years. Eric did a great job of capturing the day:
Rest easy.
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great way to think about it

RIP man, you will be missed

one of my favorite pow edits:

 
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