THE MAKING OF PASS~PORT’S FIRST FULL-LENGTH
The video features the full Pass Port team – Josh Pall, Dean Palmer, Callum Paul, Jack O’Grady, Mikey Mieruszynski, Jason Rainbird, Matlok Bennett-Jones, Glenn Wignall, Bernie Foo, Geoff Campbell and Trent Evans – plus a bonus section with the Hoddle dudes. Having made various trips to Europe, The US, NZ and obviously all over Australia, Kitsch is a testament to Pass ~ Port’s unique contribution to skateboarding, from Australia to the rest of the world.
With a big, bold and boozy premiere at the Sydney Opera House on August 29, the film headed out on an international run of premieres in LA, New York, Tokyo, London and Paris. It’s set for worldwide DVD release in late September. In light of such a highly anticipated production, I spoke to Pass ~ Port’s owner Trent Evans, as well as filmer and production editor Geoff Campbell about their creative differences, their ruthless approach to quality control and the making of Kitsch.
Getting started.
We started loosely filming for the video in mid-2017. Trent had always wanted to do a full-length video, so we started filming, but then the opportunity to be part of that Transworld Cinematographer Project came up. We decided, “Fuck it, we’ll turn it into this Transworld section for now.” So all that footage – which was VX at the time – got flushed out and the full-length kind of got put on the back burner for a minute.
“Want to just make the video?”
I tore my ACL in December 2017 and a month or two after that, I was able to push around and film again. Around that time, Trent and some of the team from Sydney came to Melbourne. I went out filming with them and then I made a one-minute edit with a song, just for fun, to present the footage we got. Trent asked me, “Actually, do you want to just make the video?” I said, “Yeah, sure.” Originally, I had been hyped to actually try to film a full part for once, but then after I hurt my knee that wasn’t a reality anymore. I thought I might as well just get fully involved this way.
No point stopping at deadlines.
When dudes got a good trick, it would go in, even after the deadline. That was the case up until the night of the premiere, which created a lot of stress. But when someone got a good trick, I was always going to use it. We had all these deadlines and then it got to a
