With his latest short film—simply titled Jesper Tjäder Street Video—Tjäder settles that question by returning to the basics. He is, first and foremost, a skier—and godd*mn it is beautiful.

Jesper Tjäder is famous for pushing boundaries and bending reality. His now-famous series of shorts—the Unrailistic series—took park skiing and gave it a considerable huff of nitrous ...