From Russia with love. We always appreciate a window into the scene way out east, and Mikhail Pervukhin (@pervenec138) has just done that and more with this opus that he's been working on for the past five years. We hit up the man himself for a summary of the journey:
"The filming for this video started way back in 2019, when the world was nothing of what it is now. We could not possibly imagine what would come for us and for everyone, but we kept filming—we wanted to create the first Russian full length of its kind.
Yekaterinburg has a very deep and rich skateboarding history and traditions, and skating here was often kind of opposed to Moscow and Saint Petersburg scenes; this video has a lot of spots and tricks to be frowned upon by “elite Moscow skaters,” and that’s the very point. We wanted to show skateboarding the way we see it, the way we live it—to capture this unique vibe of middle-east Russia.
The Ural region is a region of contrasts—you get hot and cold on the same day; you see gloomy people alongside bright and artistic people; you walk between shabby old panel houses just to see a brand new glass skyscraper on the next street. All of this, the mix of different architecture and many characters, we tried to capture for this video."
"The goal was to see all sides of this reality and create some new sides to it—see the spots where no one sees them and make something out of nothing. But we also paid some respect to traditional skateboarding.
I know that lots of people might dislike the video due to its style, but I put all my heart into editing this film and made it the way I wanted to make it. When the outro was finished, I cried. I realized how much I love every second of this video, everyone who participated in the making and every moment we spent together."—Mikhail Pervukhin
Big thanks to Pasha Tretyakov for bringing this one to our attention.
