03/05. Tuesday

19:15 Principe cinemas 9

All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997)

Jeremy Elkin / United States (Opera prima - 2020 - 89’ - VOSE)

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How was the Zoo York movement born, and who inspired Larry Clark to make his debut feature Kids, now considered a cult classic? The answer lies in All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997), the energetic documentary by newcomer Jeremy Elkin that transports us to the Manhattan of the late 1980s. Stretch Armstrong, Rosario Dawson, Eli Gesner and Yuki Watanabe are some of our companions on this journey to the bustling moment when the two subcultures that would revolutionize the world in the 1990s converged: Hip Hop and Skater culture. "All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997)" is the luminous X-ray of a New York that emerged as the undisputed benchmark of the urban at the end of the 20th century. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, skate culture and hip-hop collided in downtown Manhattan. Archival images from the period show the fusion of these two forms of expression.

Data sheet

  • Director: Jeremy Elkin
  • Year: 2020
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 89 min.
  • Original language: English
  • Leadings: Stretch Amstrong, Peter Bici, Mike Carroll
  • Camera: Joe Bressler, Brendan Burdzinski, Jeremy Elkin, Ty Evans, Jason Hernandez, Ted Newsome
  • Editor: Jeremy Elkin
  • Producers: Dana Brown, Jeremy Elkin
  • Film company: Elkin Editions

Jeremy Elkin

Jeremy Elkin

As a teenager growing up in Montreal, Elkin’s passions were skateboarding, music, and filmmaking. He shot and directed numerous skate films in the 2000s before moving to New York, where he ran video production at Vanity Fair magazine. In 2018, he shot and directed the French artist JR’s Brooklyn Museum short film, The Chronicles of New York City. Elkin has combined his passions into his feature length documentary debut, All the Streets Are Silent.