no perfect spot
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new medium
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to be useful
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no perfect spot ✳︎ new medium ✳︎ to be useful ✳︎
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Parkour has never just been about getting from one place to another.
At its roots, parkour was about learning to move through the world with what you had. Seeing possibility in ordinary places. Building strength, creativity, adaptability, and awareness. Training with friends. Learning from each other. Becoming capable enough to be useful.
Somewhere along the way, parkour became increasingly focused on the spectacular: bigger jumps, better spots, bigger productions, bigger audiences. There’s nothing wrong with that. But we want to look back toward the things that made parkour meaningful in the first place.
The spaces between the movements.
The relationships between people. The connection to a place. The creativity that comes from limitation. The strange, beautiful things that happen when a group of people gathers around a wall, a rail, a playground, a piece of concrete, and decides to see what else is possible.
This festival is an exploration of those spaces.
We want to see parkour as movement, but also as art, community, play, philosophy, and a way of interacting with the world. We want films that experiment, films that return to the roots, and films that ask what our skills are actually for.
There is no single way to make a parkour film, and there is no single way to practice parkour. Come celebrate the people, places, and values that bring us together.
February 5-6, 2027
It’s going to be a great weekend.
Friday 2/5/2027 - NOO Collective
First Friday in NoBo Arts District
6pm - 9pm
PARKOUR PEOPLE, BRING YOUR STUFF.
Got tees, photos, zines, prints, stickers, or other movement-culture goods? Table at NOO during First Friday as part of the festival.
Bring your project, rep your crew, sell your work, and share what you’re making.
Want a spot? Get in touch.
Saturday 2/6/2027 - NOO Collective
11am - 2:30pm
FILMS, COFFEE, AND CREWS
Start at NOO with coffee, pastries, and a full lineup of parkour films. Hang with your crew, connect with old friends, watch until we’ve seen it all, then head to Wapo’s Cantina for a family lunch before making your way to the jam.
Saturday 2/6/2027 - Superhuman Academy
3pm - 3:45pm
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
New to parkour? Start here. This workshop is a chance to learn the space, get comfortable in the gym, and get an introduction to parkour in a supportive environment before the jam.
The introductory workshop is optional for adults 18+ and current Superhuman students, but required for anyone under 18 who is new to Superhuman Academy, before participating in the Community Jam. Previous parkour experience does not waive this requirement for a new participant under 18.
4pm - 6pm
COMMUNITY JAM
If you know, you know.
One ticket. The whole experience.
On sale now!
We’re keeping this simple: everyone pays the same price, whether you’ve been training for years or you’re completely new to parkour.
The introductory workshop is optional for adults 18+ and current Superhuman students, but required for anyone under 18 who is new to Superhuman Academy, before participating in the Community Jam. Previous parkour experience does not waive this requirement for a new participant under 18. It’s a chance for newer athletes to learn the space, get comfortable with the gym, and get introduced to parkour in a supportive environment.
If you don’t need the workshop, that’s okay. It’s still included in your ticket. We want trying parkour for the first time to be part of the event, not an extra cost or a penalty for being new.
This is a community event. Experienced athletes, newcomers, film-makers, and people who are simply curious about parkour are all part of the same experience.
Come for the films. Stay for the jam. Find your people.
Helps cover the full cost of the event.
Your ticket includes the whole experience:
Coffee and pastries at North of Ordinary Collective
The North of Ordinary Parkour Film Festival at NOO
A 45-minute introductory parkour workshop at Superhuman Academy
A two-hour jam/open gym session at Superhuman Academy
This rate helps us cover the costs of putting the event together and buying snacks for the attendees!
Participating at Superhuman Academy?
Your Festival ticket includes access to the Superhuman Parkour Intro Workshop + Community Jam, but please complete the Superhuman participant registration and waiver in advance of training.
Register here:
https://shmovement.com/filmfestival/
Participants under 18 who are new to Superhuman must complete the Intro Workshop before participating in the Community Jam.
For those who need a lower-cost ticket.
Your ticket includes the whole experience:
Coffee and pastries at North of Ordinary Collective
The North of Ordinary Parkour Film Festival at NOO
A 45-minute introductory parkour workshop at Superhuman Academy
A two-hour jam/open gym session at Superhuman Academy
Participating at Superhuman Academy?
Your Festival ticket includes access to the Superhuman Parkour Intro Workshop + Community Jam, but please complete the Superhuman participant registration and waiver in advance of training.
Register here:
https://shmovement.com/filmfestival/
Participants under 18 who are new to Superhuman must complete the Intro Workshop before participating in the Community Jam.
Currently enrolled Superhuman Academy students receive a discount on all inclusive Festival tickets!
Participating at Superhuman Academy?
Your Festival ticket includes access to the Superhuman Parkour Intro Workshop + Community Jam, but please complete the Superhuman participant registration and waiver in advance of training.
Register here:
https://shmovement.com/filmfestival/
Participants under 18 who are new to Superhuman must complete the Intro Workshop before participating in the Community Jam.
Back to our roots - sleepover-style accommodations included with every ticket for our traveling athletes!
North of Ordinary and Superhuman Academy are independent organizations collaborating on this event and operate separate portions of the program at separate locations. North of Ordinary operates the Film Festival, overnight accommodations, and related programming at the North of Ordinary location. Superhuman Academy operates the Workshop and Community Jam at Superhuman Academy. Purchase of a bundled Festival ticket does not make either organization the operator or supervisor of the other organization’s activities. Participation in each organization’s activities is subject to that organization’s applicable rules, policies, and waivers.
meet your categories.
submissions accepted though 1/31/2027
no perfect spot
Back to the roots. No perfect spots, no perfect architecture, no endless search for the next legendary location. Just you, your friends, and whatever’s around you.
This category is about finding lines in the places you already live, train, and move through. Making something out of nothing. Getting creative with the ledge, shitty wall, playground, parking lot, or piece of concrete you’ve walked past a hundred times.
Parkour started with working with what you had. No Perfect Spot is about bringing that spirit back.
new medium
Parkour as art. This category is about pushing beyond the standard parkour edit and experimenting with what a parkour film can be.
Shoot on film. Make your own soundtrack. Bring in live music, animation, projection, dance, or whatever else makes you feel inspired. Mess with the format, the story, the camera, the movement.
We want films that treat parkour as more than something to document. Use it as a medium to make something beautiful, raw, or completely unexpected.
Break the format. Make something new.
…to be useful
Parkour has always been about more than moving fast or getting from A to B. It’s about being capable. Being useful.
This category is about putting those “superpowers” to work. Films that show parkour being used for something beyond the movement itself: helping someone out, solving a problem, building something, breaking something, bringing people together, or making yourself useful when it matters.
Be strong to be useful.
submit your film.
Interested in sponsoring or judging?
Want to get involved? We’re looking for sponsors and judges. Let’s work something out.