Mountain

"Mountain" (2017) is an Australian documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jennifer Peedom — the filmmaker behind the acclaimed "Sherpa." Shot across some of the planet's most extreme terrain, this is less a narrative than a sustained question: what pulls people toward places that actively try to kill them?

Willem Dafoe reads the narration against an original score performed live by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which composed the music to match specific footage rather than the other way around. Seventy-three minutes of aerial and ground-level photography — glaciers, sheer faces, ridgelines in cloud, climbers reduced to specks against kilometre-high walls. Peedom and the orchestra built something closer to a concert film than a conventional documentary. No answers provided, but the question stays with you. Stream Mountain online on iFILM.