To read Gondry’s article click here: Hafzoo navigates snow and ice …

Steve, who started running when others consider quitting, turned his life around, gave up smoking, lost 5 stone and worked himself to be one of the top runners of the country. And all that thanks to a Garmin training device!

The film is set under bridges, along roads and between buildings and shows the hard training that runners have to embrace during the winter months. Highlighting the USP of Forerunner 610, which simulates a virtual racer, Steve chases his “ghost” across the season.

I am very proud about the amazing piece of music that we managed to license for this film, which is by none other then UK world music legend Nitin Sawhney. Sawhney’s score, together with some subtle sound effects, complement the film with a great deal of mood and atmosphere.

The location recce on Timmelsjoch was only possible with a snowplough as the road was fully covered with snow. Serious effort using salt and “big boys toys” was needed to get the road ice free and in condition to shoot the film.

Christophe was brilliant and the footage we captured across the days and in magic hour sunset was stunning. Nevermind the serious chill which cast and crew had to put up with … gives it that extra bit of realism.

The two films will feature French cycling superstar Christophe LeMével and British running legend Steve Way. Award winning photographer Rama Knight will produce stunning images for the stills campaign.

Both stills and film will portray the intense winter training, which professional athletes have to endure to reach their desired performance for the season ahead.

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The photos are composed wonderfully – a herd of bewildered impalas, or a flock of birds trying to poke up through their plastic cover, proving that even after removing a creature from both it’s environment and of life itself, their behaviors and innate traits still find a way to come through.

These pictures are from a Danish fellow who has created a Facebook page that brings us “Dårligt udstoppede dyr,” or “Badly Stuffed Animals.” On the back foot: This two-legged donkey gives new meaning to the term wonky donkey.

Do you have these in a size 7? The taxidermists even managed to get creative, gutting the insides of a pair of moles to make a pair of shoes! Some pieces are truly nuts, check it out.

I came up with a number of scenarios, sketching them out over the locations shots and drafted the themes of animal prints and camouflage textures into the story.

We shot the film over one day and were allowed to use the amazing pieces of taxidermy by no one less then Peter Morass, who won the European championships in taxidermy 2004. He came on set and helped us to prep them and the only thing we had to hope for was no gusts of wind during the takes, as it propelled the suspended swan around the underpass. We were lucky.

Postproduction took a little while and the folks at Wildruf put in a lot of hours and did a fantastic job to get the visual effects right. It was a great project and I am thrilled with the result. People are intrigued: Are these layered photographs, but can I see them just moving a little? Are the animals 3D? Can it be that the tigers are copulating? … YES, they are!