Incredible stunts featuring the iconic Forth Road Bridge are set to feature in a new documentary about the lives of a pair of teenagers hoping their parkour skills will help them find fame and fortune.
Off the Rails is a new documentary set to be screened in the capital next month, with shows at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on August 18 and Vue Cinema on August 19 featuring a Q&A with the documentary's director, Peter Day.
Following the lives of Guidlford-based Rikke Brewer and best mate Aidan Knox as they hone their spectacular UrbEx stunts and gravity-defying Parkour skills with stunts that include riding atop trains in the Paris Metro and London’s Tube, climbing Berlin’s TV Tower and the Severn Bridge as well as the famous bridge in Edinburgh.
It also includes frank interviews with the pair as they open up on the trauma of a close friend’s death, broken families and fragile mental health, as well as the dangers of some of the stunts they have pulled over their decade-long career.
The director of the film, Peter Day, said: “I first encountered Rikke’s YouTube videos in 2016. It got me thinking that we scroll through hundreds of YouTube videos, always looking for a more daring stunt, never having any emotional investment in the people behind these extreme feats of athleticism and recklessness.
“I got sweaty palms looking at the videos on my 3 inch phone screen and I wondered what it would be like to see it blown up on a 30 foot screen instead. I wanted to take something we experience privately to an event we consume publicly at the cinema.
“Rikke and Aidan are hugely creative storytellers in their own right. I think authority figures have a tendency to write people off, to their detriment. But I have a belief in the limitless potential of people.”
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