Spike Jonze filmed skateboarding before he broke Hollywood. Raw, grainy, legendary.
Girl Skateboard's video Mouse starred Eric Koston, Tony Ferguson, Jeron Wilson, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Rudy Johnson, Guy Mariano, Sean Sheffey, Jovontae Turner and Tim Gavin and co-starred the Chocolate team.
Direction
Spike Jonze's handheld chaos before Oscar prestige.
Editing
Spliced VHS textures, no narrative safety net.
Sound
Hip-hop and punk scoring scraped knees and concrete.
Director
Spike Jonze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jonze was already famous in skating circles; this led to his Beastie Boys videos and eventually Being John Malkovich.
Mouse helped Girl Skateboards define the 'video magazine' format that every street brand copied for two decades.
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