Illegal Civilization - Short Film
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มี.ค. 2016
- Illegal Civilization - A FADER short film
No doubt you're already familiar with the work of the multi-talented Mikey Alfred. He's the skater and loosely affiliated Odd Future member behind one of our favorite streetwear brands, Illegal Civilization. What you might not know is that while the team has been incorporating scripted segments into their skate videos over the past six years, Mikey Alfred and his crew have much larger cinematic aspirations.
"The past year," Alfred told The FADER, "we've been taking narrative film making seriously, renting locations and using sound guys, the works." When The FADER stepped in to collaborate on a video project, the Illegal Civilization team had a treatment ready and waiting. "Me and my friend Lionel Boyce had written the general concept of the short already, so the timing was insane. FADER paired me with [the director] Aaron Brown, who helped make the ideas a little more grounded. He added an art aspect to it instead of us always trying to make these super dialogue-heavy Scorsese-feeling pieces."
Over the course of filming, Brown and Alfred geeked out on cinema. "He told me about films I've never known about like Brothers McMullen and old John Cassavettes movies," Alfred said. "The finished project came out amazing." It's tough to categorize: part skate film, part narrative short with a surreal bent, part lookbook. The collection was Alfred's first dive into the businessman aesthetic that typifies his team's intense motivation and creativity. "Most things seem to either be all about 'fuck it, fuck everything,' or they're just too clean-cut and boring. Not enough big movements push balance. You can be ridiculous and have fun as long as your business is handled."
The result of Alfred, Brown, and The FADER team's efforts has finally arrived: a genre-bending, unexpected little short that takes you on a wild tour of Illegal Civilization's Los Angeles, one that basks in the same slumming angels and sun-blinded sidewalks as Raymond Chandler's noirs, but fits squarely into the optimism and motivation of Mikey Alfred and Illegal Civilization.
www.thefader.com/2016/03/03/il...
www.thefader.com/2016/03/03/il...
Director: Aaron Brown
Producer: Robert Semmer, Brande Bytheway, Mikey Alfred
Executive Producer: Joseph Patel
Executive Producers: Jon Cohen, Andy Cohn, Anthony Holland, Rob Stone
Associate Producer: Madison LaClair
Co-Production: The FADER, Focus Creeps, Illegal Civilization
Written by: Mikey Alfred and Aaron Brown
Story by: Mikey Alfred, Aaron Brown, Brook Linder
Cinematography: Frank Mobilio
Editor: Brook Linder
Production Design: Carlos Laszlo
Sound Recordists: Emmet Casey, Jake Viator, Molly Young
First Assistant Camera: Rachel Fox
Production Assistant: Eric Estrada
Visual Effects and Compositing: Paul LaBerge
Title Design Graphics: Madison Bullard
Score and Sound Mix: Zach Goheen at High Lonesome
Colorist: Gregory Reese at The Mill - เพลง
![[LIVE] : ONE ลุมพินี 70 วันนี้!! คู่เอก "โฟกัส vs สเตฟาน"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_fVieQ89DRQ/mqdefault.jpg)
olan walking on water, im crying.
He's the skateboard Jesus lol.
But we just gonna ignore the fact he walked from roof to roof 😂
Ong😭😭
Jesuschrist
ikr😭😭😭😭😭
This went from being a mini-doc to a short film with no notice
This confused the hell out of me and I loved it, thought it was a docu at first lol
The man in the first scene calls the cops on these skaters, and the cop follows them around everywhere trying to kill/arrest these kids. It's what civilization has come to these days, and it's illegal.
Naw it's what skaters do they don't give a shit
African_Child _Labour_Worker nigga did you read his comment?
I’m 13 and this is deep
Illegal civilization
American skaters are obnoxious
wtf was this haha when olan walked on water
looked like a lesbian scene when olan was kissin that girl lmao
+anaja ferrell For real tho, i thought the same lol
+anaja ferrell it wasn't a lesbian scene?
+anaja ferrell the blonde? wait what who is who
+James the blonde is olan
The disrespectful pepole
No idea what the fuck I just watched, but it was fucking dope! LMAO
IC, nigga!
+TheMrDicat That RANDOM skatevid everyone likes . because its the shit!!
Moral of the story? Lesbians CAN walk on water
olan a dude
I was wondering about that
brilliant conclusion. i agree.
its a guy u fuck
Is a guy d
if the acting is bad I can't take shit seriously, honestly them just being natural and hanging out is more entertaining to watch.
Anybody eles notice the board that Black Mike had wasn't the same board he found? Lol
i think that was on purpose lol
Yeah lol thats why he looked around. It wasnt his but he just took it
Skateboard B it switched like 3 times next to him then when he found his board
This shit got weird real quick
Bro I thought this shit was real till the security dude ran like a lil bitch
+RickBones you probably never have seen a movie before
lol i haven't
it seems like men wtf, you say this shit look real men wtf what the fuck did you have in your fuckin head bitchh?
only the real ones can come to watch this short film after watching that Tyler and Rocky freestyle. both shot by Mikey Alfred
hell yeah same😂😂😂
+FlySociety216 this wasn't shot by mikey
+Diego Alzamora Yeah, it was.
+Hyde Oh wait nevermind I thought you meant the Rocky/Tyler thing
FlySociety216 ii
idc about the floating meat ball n shit I'm confused about that dude walking on air bruh other then that this was tight
I love how i can feel the real LA in the shots and overall cinematography. I also love the blending of genres, the surrealism was cool and interesting. I can't wait to see more from Mikey and illegal civ, they are really talented.
the people that are hating have no clue who IC even is probably lmao
Wannabe OF eggs.
fr lol but this is on fader so theyre prolly new to this shit
Well, okay. Whatever that was.
Mikey's Camera: Panasonic DVCPro HD
for those of you who are curious like me, you can kind of see the model if you pause the video at 1:59
+SearchAndDiscover Uhh its a panasonic hpx170 w/ century optics extreme lens
that long white sleeve with half yellow tee is dope asf
YALL RUN HELLA SLOW FROM SOMEONE THATS ABOUT TO SHOOT YOU.
Why can he walk on water and mid air? I don't get what's going on
Weird things start happening when the security guard is around
Tokeish But they act like they don't give a shit lol
+mastermizbot cuz p is the man and he get bitches
Christopher Harper That explains it, thanks
+mastermizbot ic shoes
Every comment is about olan being a lesbian 😭
right 😂😂
😂😂😂
wtf did i jut watch?
KELVIN art
illegal civ boys duhhh
not to be mean or weird but what was the whole point of this video
or short movie
i'm not sure myself
Its a lookbook/promotion/ad for the Illegal Civilization clothing line....a badass one...
Am i the only one who took it as a social commentary on police brutality
2:27 NIGGA WHAAAT?!!
That one guy looks like Bryson tiller lol
+BrysonTiller Faan esco tha god
+BrysonTiller Faan he deleted his Instagram cause dudes kept copy catting his fits
Facts
I think it's frank ocean
so many taylor the creators
+nitzdaking321 aka, so many skaters. stfu
nitzdaking321 well, Dey is from close hoods so ya
nitzdaking321 mikey is so different from Tyler it's not even funny
AMAZE BALLS!!! This is what the youth should be doing. Creating and including everyone in the creation. The cast looked like a United Nations delegation. This is some next level, include and love EVERYBODY! You slaying, Mikey!!! Yup!!!
8:13 Had me dying yo LMAO
Great work, love the concept. Would like to see more.
So dope, need a movie ASAP
thank you Fader for this
This was fucking trippy as shit and I loved every bit of it
That was super impressive, the effects were flawless. Can't wait to see more films from Mikey.
IC on the come up
Certified fresh as fuck.
2:55 yup.
Awesome video !
It was pretty sick , very mysterious . You guys have a lot of talent .
so we all gon act like tht blonde nigga didn't just stunted on the whole cast with them ice cream kicks from 2004 n shit ! them shit look clean af
im in love yo RNS this is being dope 💕 that tyler and rocky video is most def gonna be bumping all this weekend
Dope short continue to build upon this project!
This was really good. My eyes were glued lol
AYE! this is cool they got it on FADER.
wtf, we need a full movie this is sickkkkk
The walking in air effects was crazy, reminds me of some modern day quentin tarantino shit.
this was AMAZING but I'm kinda lost trying to figure out the message behind it. but mad love and respect for these guys . one of my top 6 inspirations
Best short films of the century
Very unique lil video- I dig the short film vibe with a mix of that illigal civ skateboarding and comedy :D very nice :D
WAIT... This that new level skate films
We need this on a daily
Mikey Alfred is awesome
this is amazing
im ready for this fye sequel bruv...
yo LOVED the video good work!!:)
love
aye man that first part was fucked..cant be disrespectful like that all the time..we all grown ups.
+PoonMan that guy was disrespectful they werent hurtin nobody and he was giving them shit. so he gets shit back thats how the world works my man
+nuhhhhhhh yeah but it's his property
They were acting. He was an actor😒
+PoonMan You know this whole video was acting right? That dude really wasn't walking on water bro
DeAngelo Cherry i was thinking that after i wrote the comment but idek tbh..ive seen these dudes disrespect mad people cause they want to skate a spot....thats just some little baby shit in my opinion.
best short film I ever seen before!
olan walking on water got me on the floor 😹😹😹
yay
pure fire
This was really good.
THIS WAS MAD
this was good! had a Ken Park feel to it
that was class
This was dope
there better be another part to this.
Yoh fam that was insane s/o...
dope little short film
SO DOPE
YES
crazy
this was tight af
hope theres a part 2 for this
Good job Mikey
Mikey always makes cool shit. He should make this into a movie haha
Tight
'lmao 2:28 hahahaha. lit short film gimmie more mikey!!
I thought I was trippin for a sec when he walked on the water lmfaooo
those ice cream board flips are so ill
Best personality’s in all of y’all
hell yeah
mikey alfred is crazy!
so dope
Mikey and them boys are high key smart tho so I dig this interpretive shit that you're going for, keep up the hard work- IC is a movement and I'm wit it
sickest video ive seen in years...
Olan needs to really make a fuking movie
You predicted the future, buddy
i wonder what else Aaron Brown has directed. this was innovative and new, something fresh.
So gas
Yo I'm hyped asf to see olan in mid90s!!
kinda lost me when the kid walked over water. completely distorted the story. coulda went a much better path with this!
+Chris Johnston lmao that part cracked me up
nah it was cool, some david lynch shit lol
Aye shut the fuck up
lmao i used to live by that school. I moved before i could attend there. woulda been sick to have met these guys
this nigga Olan walking on water lmao
OMG DOPE
NEED MORE
this shit was amazing
This is in Pasadena! DOPE
i stated geeking like shit when the meatball started floating 💀💀
Dope af
I'm subscribing because of this
This is wet yo keep it up y'all 👌🏽👌🏽
very dope keep going
This goes.
These are the people i make the type of music i make for. people who not afraid t live, who are not afraid to be themselves , the doesnt care who's lookin but will stance dance if front of you type of people. this is what freedom really looks like !! #PS