Thomas Campbell
Ye Olde Destruction (YOD), 2019
57 min. 16mm film
For the past seven years, artist and filmmaker Thomas Campbell (b. 1969, USA) has been working on his self-funded skateboarding film Ye Olde Destruction, a black-and-white 16mm exploit, featuring “a solid grip of shredders building and skating DIY spots, some street action, pools and other stuff,” as Campbell notes. The impetus of the film – the two groups of skaters driving through California in cool old cars – almost classifies it as a classic car movie, but presented in a brutal and somehow dreamscape editing style, featuring frenetic scribblings of the renowned zine-artist Sergej Vutuc and an original score composed by the LA-based duo No Age, it turns out as a subtle time warp, an inter-web of a community, emotions and tensions, an ode to a lifelong affair with skateboarding.
Featured YOD skaters: Evan Smith, Jon Dickson, Jason Adams, Rick Mccrank, Max Schaaf, Caswell Berry, Brent Atchley, Elisa Steamer, Ray Barbee, Al Partanen, Omar Salazar, Jackson Pilz, Robbie Russo, Ben Raemers, Chris Russell, Willis Kimble, Cody Chapman, Rayne Beres, John Worthington, Emmanuel Guzman, Cole Wilson, Roger Mihalko, Tony Miorana, Aron Suski, Mark Suciu, Andy Roy, Eli Williams, Israel Forbes, Nick Garcia, Oski Rozenberg ,Barker Barrett, Dennis Buzenitz, Tony Trujillo, Sid Melvin, Zarosh Eggleston, Zach Wallin, Ishod wair, Chico Brennes, Louie Barletta, Collin Provost, Stefan Janoski, Raven Tershy, T Funk, Taylor bingaman. Jeremy Leabres, Ben Raemers and Grant Taylor.
Screening:
Saturday, December 14, 12-4 PM
Thank you Palle Vedel (Manden med Kameraet)