‘Spirit Quest’ Interview | Many VX’s were harmed in the making
Remember back to the most viral skateboard clip of 2016, Mandibleclaw’s (aka Colin Read) brain burner all done with the infamous VX camera.
Free Skateboard Magazine has an extensive interview up with Colin Read about his diy movie Spirit Quest from where this clip was taken. It talks about the extensive abuse he put the vintage VX’s through, going through 8 cameras and 3 lens over the course of filming. The movie is crazy and requires repeated viewings, even more so after hearing Colin talk about the project.
Will: Yeah that was one of the questions I was going to ask: How hard was it to pull off and what did the skaters think about this as you were filming them?
Arthur: They must have thought you were trippin’.
Yeah sort of, but everyone was more than game to fuck around. And some of them just ended up not working – the effect just wasn’t that good and some of them were too bizarre and people could just not comprehend what was happening. There was one I did with Connor Kammerer and in the middle of a line he does a tre flip and in one dimension he lands only on his left leg, like one footed, and in the other dimension he lands only on his right leg and so in the brought together dimension he land like a tripod with three legs. So he’s standing on one leg but he has another leg in either direction sticking up like a tripod and then he does a powerslide to bring it all back – to bring his legs back in to his body. So I really liked that one, but the people I showed it to just couldn’t even comprehend… They just couldn’t understand it. It was just too bizarre to use in a part. And I think the video in general takes several viewings to comprehend everything.
Arthur: Yeah I remember being very confused at certain things in the end.
Yeah it’s very dense and there are a lot of hidden things and really bizarre things that are hard to understand. So it’s meant for repeated viewings for sure.
Click over to Freeskate Mag for the full interview with Colin Read about making Spirit Quest.
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