Pat Bethell
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Review: Format Perspective
Format Perspective is a documentary film by Phil Evans that explores the work, lives and opinions of six European skate photographers. The film showcases the photography of Nils Svensson (Malmo), Stu Robinson (Belfast), Alex Irvine (London), Rich Gilligan (Dublin), Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn) and Bertrand Trichet (Barcelona/Tokyo). It also gives us an insight into the different approaches used by this diverse line-up of photographers.
Format Perspective
‘Format Perspective is a film by Phil Evans that explores the work, lives and opinions of six European skate photographers.
One Skater One Spot- Leon Clark
Leon Clark leads us into the winter night, set amongst diffused light and a worn out car park. Leon’s style crossed with the imaginative filming of James Harris has left us all magnetised to that one environment for those 60
Brighton With Ghostpoet.
Hazy sunshine hits the beachfront in Brighton on a day when the weather hasn’t quite decided between Summer and the beginning of Autumn. I’m sitting in the bar at the Concorde 2 in the late afternoon waiting for the arrival of Ghostpoet….
Jason Lewer – There and Back Again.
Skate film maker James Harris shows us a different way around Bristol, through the smooth style of Jason Lewer. ‘We wanted to show Jason’s day-to-day journey through Bristol, shining a different light on some of the most iconic skate spots
Lorna Leigh Scribbles.
People see things differently through lines of perspective or glimpses of the unexpected. Whether it’s a musician on a train picking up sounds to create a track or a filmmaker that sees an everyday object as something that is emotive and interesting…It’s late in the evening at Lorna’s family home in an old tourist town by the sea in West Sussex. As I ready myself to interview her I notice props and memorabilia that span from her grandfathers sketchings, dusty old Vogue magazine covers and paintings of animals.
Fortune’s Fool…The Backstory.
Hiatus and Shura have been going from strength to strength producing soulful, melancholic music mixed with heavy basslines. Their tunes have been constantly spun on the Mint turntables…In an exclusive for Mint and in his own words, Hiatus shows us the story behind the Fortune’s Fool video.