Videograss HALF/OFF World Premiere: Full Videos Are Still Crushing | Pics + director interview

Snowboard movies are alive and well these days. Well, they are at least alive as Videograss is doing three of them this year. One of them entitled HALF/OFF premiered in Hood this weekend and Desiree Melancon wrote about it. Drinks were had and snowboarders look pretty much the same as they did 10-years ago.

Jon Stark, the director, has some cool words about creating the project, which you can read about on SNOWBOARDER MAG and see the pretty party pics as well.

 

“Desiree Melancon: I mean, it’s almost a rag to riches ordeal. The crazy guy who showed up in California in 2010 as the Ashbury intern–the guy who our entire friend crew was put off by because he couldn’t stop aggressively fanning out on every pro snowboarder who came over to my house–managed to find a path and climb his way up the fabricated filmer rungs to premiere his own Videograss project, which is playing in four hours.

It’s amazing. It was not even five years ago that I came to camp for the first time and they showed Bon Voyage. I remember sitting there and it was so important for me to be there. It was so insane for me to watch my favorite snowboarders. I watched them watch themselves, then watched them watch their friends snowboard. And to make my own, it’s better. Crazy. Justin is pretty amazing for letting me do this. I’m proud. Yeah. Things don’t always work out the way you plan, and I am incredibly happy to be in this situation. Snowboarding’s progressing so fast and it’s so sick to be there and document it the best way possible. To show it and to do it by trying to give it the most justice you can, with integrity and character. It’s crazy.”