Elephant Direct

2010 · 20 min

Elephant Direct is a visual project by two of skateboarding’s most traditional filmmakers, Jeremy Elkin and Jason Auger. Following in the spirit of Elkin’s "Lo-Def", here the work is compounded into a temporary online stream that serves as a tribute to the working class. In today’s post-‘throwaway’ era, senses and memories are all too regularly put under a general anesthetic at the hands of both over saturation and too many nameless kids doing 360 shove-its better than you could. And consequently, the relationship we form with skate videos rarely extend beyond a one-night stand of gross hyperbole and pressing a fucking ‘like’ button. Enter Elkin and Auger, determined to maintain that sense of mystery and memorable hand-made personality that made the likes of Video Days what it is: something that can never be described as ‘throwaway’.

BrandXampl Films

SkatersRodney Torres, Russ Milligan, Dan Pensyl, Jimmy Mcdonald, Andrew Mcgraw, Brian Delatorre, Kevin Lowry, Casey Rigney, Paul Liliani, Yaje Popson

FilmmakersJeremy Elkin, Jason Auger

CategoryHomie Video