A 2020 Official Selection for the prestigious CanadaShorts film festival, this mini-doc is an arresting visual essay on the poetics of skateboarding, using Creston BC's state-of-the-art skate park, and a glorious sunset over the Kootenay ...See moreA 2020 Official Selection for the prestigious CanadaShorts film festival, this mini-doc is an arresting visual essay on the poetics of skateboarding, using Creston BC's state-of-the-art skate park, and a glorious sunset over the Kootenay region's Selkirk mountains as the backdrop. Four cameras, including a drone, were used to capture the acrobatics of kids and teens showing their stuff in this breathtaking location in the interior of British Columbia. The Video opens with two skaters in profile against an August sunset, affording dramatically warm tones and provocative silhouettes, followed by shots shows skater and bikers demonstrating increasingly sophisticated moves as the evening wears. The video concludes on the synthesized melody of Moby, with the sun setting and the skaters/biker well satiated with the evening's unfoldings. Written by
Mark Wolfe
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