BUSSUP MINI DOC + ZINE

Bussup is an experimental documentary short film on skateboarding, accompanied by a 32 page photographic zine. The title, “Bussup”, refers to a slang term used in skateboarding when a skater lands a trick in a sketchy or messed up fashion. Bussup draws on the ideas presented in Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of The Poor Image, translated through a skateboarding culture that is built on the repetition and beautification that comes with a destructive process. Just as Steyerl notes that the poor image is “a copy in motion”, so too is the participant of skateboarding. She says that “Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates”. Just as the photographic or cinematic image deteriorates as it accelerates, so too does the skateboarder. But something more beautiful comes out of it. On the surface, the work will explore the relationship between destruction and creation, relating to that same shared relationship found in the subject at hand. 

4 minute short film shot on 16mm kodak tri max, digital, and mixed media.

7/17 of the spreads featured in the zine.