Harmony Korine’s film Kids (1995) documented a day-in-the-life of a group of New York skaters and their friends, creating an arguably poignant image of self-destruction, sexuality and drug abuse. Korine cast boys from a local New York skate park with no previous acting experience creating a realistic representation of the sub-culture within the context of New York in the mid-nineties. Here is the trailer:
Harold Hunter, who stars in the film, went on to become a professional skateboarder sponsored by Zoo York.
Another film to check out is Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. Sant is famous for his somewhat minimalist approach to film with movies such as Jerry, My Own Private Idaho, Last Days and Elephant. The later films both blended fact and fiction with Last Days based on Kurt Cobain's Suicide and Elephant on the Columbine School Massacre. Paranoid Park is based on the O'Bryant Square skatepark in Portland nicknamed Punk Park and Paranoid Park
and again depicts the link between skateboarding and rebellious youth.
CHECK THE TRAILER:
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