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Jeff Hamada

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SKATE HEADS

Skate Heads was created by Vancouver-based directors, Benny and Christian Zenga, who make work (with many other members of their family) under the name, Zenga Bros. The filmmakers have become known for their fast-paced, DIY aesthetic, scooping up several Vimeo Staff Picks in recent years. Skate Heads is part of an on-going collaboration between Flexfit and Booooooom which gives creatives a chance to bring their own dream projects to life.

For this film Benny and Christian built, among other things, a row boat that flips over to become a spine ramp, and a cabin / half pipe that rolls along train tracks.

In the Zenga Bros own words:

“Skate Heads was a way to combine a bunch of things we really like: mobile living spaces, DIY skateboarding and ECCENTRIFING THE WORLD! It's about bringing something unexpected into the streets and having a rad time.

Skateboarding is inherently about adapting and repurposing the urban landscape, but somehow even skateboarding can settle into a complacent state, where certain approaches become the norm. When street skating first started it was weird and abrasive, and that'll always be there with wheels rattling down the sidewalk, but it's good to remind ourselves to maintain a sense of foolishness, exploration and wonder; that is skateboarding. For us, making a backyard ramp was the ultimate form of creating our own adventure playground. Skate Heads has been a continuation of that.”