Dustin Craig documentary film maker and skateboarder.
"For me the impacts have been very positive only because I chose to focus on the positive aspects of skateboarding. I was lucky enough to have some natural ability that helped me to learn tricks and to ride, and eventually become good, not great, but just good, slightly above average for my time which was the early 90′s. Because of skateboard magazines, I was exposed to a wide variety of art, music, photography and youth culture."
This 8 minute experimental film was featured in a collaborative exhibition between the National Museum of the American Indian in New York and the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona. The exhibit was on display from October of 2007 though September 2008. The film was projected on a wall in HD and surrounded with walls decorated with skateboard decks from the last 10 years. This film is a personal portrait of 2 incredibly adaptive cultures, one very ancient and one still evolving, yet both are indigenous to North America. Skateboarding and Native American Culture.
The Apaches portrayed in this film are White Mountain Apache Scouts of the 1880's, and they are depicted by young Skateboarders from the community of Whiteriver on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. The footage spans the last 15 years of skateboarding on the Reservation, and depicts a very specific group of skateboarders that have grown up in the same culture and environment. This is an effort to portray two fluid cultures in constant motion.
Here is the link to the video on vimeo- http://vimeo.com/1776390
His film captures the link between the Native American Indian and skateboarding. He has also made some more short films promoting skaters for '4wheelwarponyskate' company.
http://vimeo.com/8998618- Nathaniel Watson.
http://vimeo.com/27762585- Malcom Johnson.
http://vimeo.com/16015300-Tony Steele.
http://vimeo.com/15728729-Trevor Scott.
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