Elephant Direct

Elephant Direct cover art
Elephant Direct is a visual project by two of skateboarding’s most traditional filmmakers, Jeremy Elkin and Jason Auger. Following in the spirit of Elkin’s "Lo-Def", here the work is compounded into a temporary online stream that serves as a tribute to the working class. In today’s post-‘throwaway’ era, senses and memories are all too regularly put under a general anesthetic at the hands of both over saturation and too many nameless kids doing 360 shove-its better than you could. And consequently, the relationship we form with skate videos rarely extend beyond a one-night stand of gross hyperbole and pressing a fucking ‘like’ button. Enter Elkin and Auger, determined to maintain that sense of mystery and memorable hand-made personality that made the likes of Video Days what it is: something that can never be described as ‘throwaway’.

Soundtrack

Intro

Instant Orange - Skyline

Andrew McGraw

Brothers Unlimited - Life Dreams Death

Mike Fyfe

Witch - Strange Dream

Russ Milligan, Pat O'Rourke & Seb Labbe

Instant Orange - Visionary

Montage

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It from the Man

Bradley Sheppard & Torey Goodall

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Pluto the Dog

Marc Tison

GG Allin - Galileo

Justin Gastelum

GG Allin - Watch Me Kill

Kevin Lowry

Dark - In the Sky

Credits

GG Allin - Outskirts of Life