Short film directed by Noel Black. Won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film and the technical grand prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.
Known as the first film about skateboarding.
Soundtrack : Skaterdater rock peformed by Davie Allan and the arrows.
(this is just the beginning of the short. If you wish to see the rest of it, you can see it here but the quality is pretty bad)
directed by Corey Adams & Alex Craig. The story of Walter Rhum, a kid who enters a trippy world when he’s signed by the mysterious skateoarding company known as Machotaildrop (doesnt that logo remind you of something ?).
via Slashfilm (who has a great interview with the directors)
We’ve done the where the wild things are stuff already. So just enjoy Spike Jonze doing his Michael Bay in the credits for the fully flared skate video…
The illustration above is from Marcel Dzama, who collaborated with Jonze on an animated short about the movie for the latest issue of Wholphin. If you like his style, he made this music video for N.A.S.A. (featuring Jonze’s brother, Squeak E Clean) with Syd Garon :
Written and directed by Aurélia Morali. (2006) // With Clémence Poésy & Adrien De Van // Soundtrack: Au Revoir Simone // In the middle of a wheatfield, a girl throws a paper plane in the air. It falls at a boy's feets...//
