Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta Instagram – I never had the slightest inkling I would make skate videos and then go on to make films. In 1983 I was living in Hollywood and my neighbor and friend was D.David Morin, former editor of Skateboarder Mag. He had just graduated from film school and was now a budding film maker and actor. He came to me one day and said, “My partner Dan and I think we can make a skate video featuring the Bones Brigade for 5k.” It was an offer George and I couldn’t refuse. Plans were quickly drawn up to begin shooting the Bones Brigade Video Show. But days before our first shoot, D.David auditioned for and landed an acting role in a major TV commercial making him unavailable. He told me I’d be in good hands with Dan, but Dan and I didn’t quite click. I wanted him to shoot the angles Stecyk had established with his classic DT photos but Dan saw it differently. So after day one I made the decision to take the video on myself. Being smart enough to know that I knew nothing about film making but dumb enough to do it anyway, I rented a 3/4 inch video camera and began shooting. In 8 months I’d amassed hours of footage. Then knowing even less about editing but naive enough to proceed, I rented a portable Sony editing system and parked it on my kitchen table where it remained for the next five months. I spent hours hunched over the material, logging it into notebooks and slowly piecing it together, then showing it to George and Stecyk for guidance. As it turns out, it was my deep understanding of skateboarding, the rhythm and flow of it that allowed me to overcome my lack of film making skills. Skateboarding itself guided the process and showed me how to make that first video and then the others that followed, and really all of my films. I don’t know what I have learned in life that is not the direct result of my intimate relationship with skateboarding. | Posted on 01/Jul/2023 20:33:10