Machotaildrop
26/05/10 06:51 Filed in: éS footwear
Tässä infoa vähän toisenlaisesta skedeleffasta. Aikanaan on ollu muutama yritys yhdistää skedeystä leffoihin, mutta tässä on ihan kiinnostava psykedeelinen kulma. Tsekkaa traileri tästä.
éS skateboarding is proud to present the UK Premiere of Machotaildrop starring éS pros Rick McCrank & John Rattray.
The new psychedelic indie film, written and directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, will melt your mind…think Willie Wonka meets skateboarding. Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company...Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company. Check out the trippy trailer herehttp://www.machotaildrop.com/teaser
The film will be shown at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square on Thursday 3rd June. Tickets are available from Slam City Skates http://www.slamcity.com/ and the Prince Charles Cinema http://www.princecharlescinema.com/indexdown.php?display=1285&date=2010:6:3&year=2010&month=6&day=3
Rick McCrank and John Rattray will be in attendance, as will the filmmakers Corey Adams and Alex Craig.
They will be available for interviews on the day of the premiere, so please let me know if it’s of interest and I’ll get it arranged for you.
éS skateboarding is proud to present the UK Premiere of Machotaildrop starring éS pros Rick McCrank & John Rattray.
The new psychedelic indie film, written and directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, will melt your mind…think Willie Wonka meets skateboarding. Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company...Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company. Check out the trippy trailer herehttp://www.machotaildrop.com/teaser
The film will be shown at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square on Thursday 3rd June. Tickets are available from Slam City Skates http://www.slamcity.com/ and the Prince Charles Cinema http://www.princecharlescinema.com/indexdown.php?display=1285&date=2010:6:3&year=2010&month=6&day=3
Rick McCrank and John Rattray will be in attendance, as will the filmmakers Corey Adams and Alex Craig.
They will be available for interviews on the day of the premiere, so please let me know if it’s of interest and I’ll get it arranged for you.
Pontus Alvin uusi leffa
23/05/10 19:14 Filed in: Etnies
Saatiin parit kuvat Emerican jannuilta Pontuksen uuden leffan ensi-illan tiimoilta. Tässä kevyt pohjustus iltaan:
Last weekend the premiere of Pontus’ new video ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ went down at the Tangopalatset in Pontus’ hometown of Malmö.
Friends from all over the world gathered to see the movie and party the night away as Pontus turned 30 at midnight.
Again, after the release of ‘Strongest of the Strange’ five years back, Pontus delivered a 59 minute masterpiece.
All images shot by Eric Antoine.
Enis ja Pontus
Enis bs dis.
Loppuun vielä tietopaketti uudesta leffasta:
In Search of the Miraculous
– an introduction to the latest film by Pontus Alv
Words by: John Dahlquist
It has been five years since Pontus Alv’s film the Strongest of the Strange (http://www.myspace.com/thestrongestofthestrangesoundtrack) came out. Even before the premier Pontus had already started filming his next project, which you are about to get a small glimpse of. Hard work behind and in front of the camera, the unconditional love for skateboarding, his scene and the DIY culture is slowly forming into yet another masterpiece signed Pontus Alv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zYa13jGTA) .
This time around filming has mostly revolved around Scania, the southern part of Sweden, where Pontus and his friends resides. Since most spots where killed, destroyed and sometimes torn down in the first film a lot of work, man hours and car rides has gone into digging deep into the Scanian hummus to search for and to create new possibilities. No stones have been left unturned and a lot of times they have been pushed together and gotten concrete poured all over them to create new spots and opportunities in a true DIY manner. When most skaters go to Barcelona and other thirteen-spots-to-the-dozen-cities to film their parts in an environment far from their natural habitatPontus, Johan Linö-Waad (http://semesterskate.com/team/johan-lino-waad/) and Danijel Todorovic has stayed on their turf to do the most of what is theirs, their hometown Malmö. The aim has been to show that it is possible to make things happen anywhere and that lack of spots breeds creativity. Creativity does not just come across in the skating but also in all the DIY spots that popped up as an effect of Strongest of the Strange and as an alternative to the public parks for the great masses.
During the making of the Strongest Pontus made up with his father’s death through old super 8 tapes and his fathers words of wisdom. The whole film was Pontus’ way of showing his dad that he became the skater and independent adult his dad always pushed him to be. During the making of this film Pontus’s grandfather and grandmother both passed away and therefore this time around Pontus once again deals with life and death and the meaning of it all. This effected the film as it is hard to make a difference between Pontus private life and his work. Most of the time they are so tightly combined it is impossible to see where one ends and the other one starts.
As the film only consists of skaters that have a personal relation to Pontus, his scene and the world he creates through his films, the movie is a time document and a portrait of a scene and perspective of skateboarding signed Pontus Alv with all what that includes. There has been no team, money or contracts to push or force the skaters to deliver. As most videos show a skateboard team put together by contracts this one shows friends skating together fuel only by the drive to push the envelope and the sheer love for their skateboard scene. A scene is never a geographic place but a living organism created by the skaters who get involved and make things happen. As they go along like alchemists, making gold of nothing but some sheets of plywood, bags of concrete and a lot of creativity magic happens. And Pontus has been around to document it with his death lens. These last five years have been spent, without a day lost, on just that – Searching for the Miraculous.
Last weekend the premiere of Pontus’ new video ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ went down at the Tangopalatset in Pontus’ hometown of Malmö.
Friends from all over the world gathered to see the movie and party the night away as Pontus turned 30 at midnight.
Again, after the release of ‘Strongest of the Strange’ five years back, Pontus delivered a 59 minute masterpiece.
All images shot by Eric Antoine.
Enis ja Pontus
Enis bs dis.
Loppuun vielä tietopaketti uudesta leffasta:
In Search of the Miraculous
– an introduction to the latest film by Pontus Alv
Words by: John Dahlquist
It has been five years since Pontus Alv’s film the Strongest of the Strange (http://www.myspace.com/thestrongestofthestrangesoundtrack) came out. Even before the premier Pontus had already started filming his next project, which you are about to get a small glimpse of. Hard work behind and in front of the camera, the unconditional love for skateboarding, his scene and the DIY culture is slowly forming into yet another masterpiece signed Pontus Alv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zYa13jGTA) .
This time around filming has mostly revolved around Scania, the southern part of Sweden, where Pontus and his friends resides. Since most spots where killed, destroyed and sometimes torn down in the first film a lot of work, man hours and car rides has gone into digging deep into the Scanian hummus to search for and to create new possibilities. No stones have been left unturned and a lot of times they have been pushed together and gotten concrete poured all over them to create new spots and opportunities in a true DIY manner. When most skaters go to Barcelona and other thirteen-spots-to-the-dozen-cities to film their parts in an environment far from their natural habitatPontus, Johan Linö-Waad (http://semesterskate.com/team/johan-lino-waad/) and Danijel Todorovic has stayed on their turf to do the most of what is theirs, their hometown Malmö. The aim has been to show that it is possible to make things happen anywhere and that lack of spots breeds creativity. Creativity does not just come across in the skating but also in all the DIY spots that popped up as an effect of Strongest of the Strange and as an alternative to the public parks for the great masses.
During the making of the Strongest Pontus made up with his father’s death through old super 8 tapes and his fathers words of wisdom. The whole film was Pontus’ way of showing his dad that he became the skater and independent adult his dad always pushed him to be. During the making of this film Pontus’s grandfather and grandmother both passed away and therefore this time around Pontus once again deals with life and death and the meaning of it all. This effected the film as it is hard to make a difference between Pontus private life and his work. Most of the time they are so tightly combined it is impossible to see where one ends and the other one starts.
As the film only consists of skaters that have a personal relation to Pontus, his scene and the world he creates through his films, the movie is a time document and a portrait of a scene and perspective of skateboarding signed Pontus Alv with all what that includes. There has been no team, money or contracts to push or force the skaters to deliver. As most videos show a skateboard team put together by contracts this one shows friends skating together fuel only by the drive to push the envelope and the sheer love for their skateboard scene. A scene is never a geographic place but a living organism created by the skaters who get involved and make things happen. As they go along like alchemists, making gold of nothing but some sheets of plywood, bags of concrete and a lot of creativity magic happens. And Pontus has been around to document it with his death lens. These last five years have been spent, without a day lost, on just that – Searching for the Miraculous.