I knew the twins (Jules and Brenn Lorenzo) from the Chelsea skate park. She was like, ‘Are there more of you?’ I knew Dede (Lovelace) and Ajani (Russell) from high school, and Kabrina (Adams) through other girls in the city that I used to skate with. One day, we were taking the G train and talking loudly, and Crystal overheard us and came over and asked if we wanted to do a short film. “We were friends over the internet for, like, two years until we met at this ‘girls’ sesh’ at House of Vans, and then we instantly became friends in real life. “Rachelle (and I) met on YouTube as 12-year-olds trying to make skate videos,” Moran explains. An imaginary skate crew on-screen, the idea crossed over into the young women’s lives and became real – an experience reversed again in Moselle’s new film. It was after the experience filming this project (which became “That One Day”, released by Miu Miu as part of its Women’s Tales programme) that the IRL Skate Kitchen began to take shape. When the director approached Vinberg and her friend, young skateboarder Nina Moran, on the train and asked if they would be interested in making a short film, the idea for Skate Kitchen had not yet formed. The film is uncannily predictive, drawing from the real experience of its subjects as they portray lightly fictionalised versions of themselves. There is indeed an oracular quality to Moselle’s first feature-length narrative, following on from her documentary The Wolfpack, a hit at Sundance in 2015. Then I went to the hospital, just like in the movie, and in the car, my mom said ‘no more skating’, just like in the movie. “I was bleeding on the ground and laughing because I couldn’t believe it. “Isn’t it crazy?” she says, pulling out her iPhone to show her receipts in the form of a gory slideshow. It also happened to Rachelle herself, shortly after filming. It’s absolutely gruesome, and it’s what happens to the character of Camille (played by Rachelle Vinberg) in the opening salvo of Skate Kitchen, Crystal Moselle’s new vérité chronicling the exploits of a downtown New York City, all-girl skate crew.
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It’s something that happens when you try to land a jump and it backfires – not in the figurative sense – rocketing your board perpendicularly into your vaginal region. Unless you’re a girl who skates, you’ve probably never been ‘credit-carded’. Taken from autumn 2018 issue of Dazed. You can buy a copy of our latest issue here.