Mad Max: Fury Road

Performers ride long carbon-fibre poles fitted to picture vehicles, swinging cab-to-cab while the convoy travels at speed. The pole-cat rig was designed in collaboration with Australian rigger Glenn Suter (ARK Stunts) — a rear-mounted carbon-fibre pole, counterweighted at the base, with the performer harnessed to a sliding ring along the pole length. A safety cable ran from the harness to a winch-controlled tether mounted on the chase vehicle.

The War Rig rollover sequence — the multi-axle truck collapsing onto its side mid-convoy — was performed practically using the actual picture-car War Rig with internal roll-cage reinforcement and a counterweighted impact rig. Multiple cameras (eight to twelve, depending on take) covered the sequence; reset between takes took roughly 24 hours.