BFFS - THIBAUD FRADIN PART 2 Frenchfred 2018-02-27 | A brand new episode featuring french skateboarder Thibaud Fradin, when he was riding for Cliché Skateboards. Footage filmed between 2003 and 2008. Thibaud has always been a hard ripper, skating every spot on his path.
BFFS - THIBAUD FRADIN PART 1 Frenchfred 2018-02-09 | A brand new episode featuring french skateboarder Thibaud Fradin, when he was riding for Cliché Skateboards. Footage filmed between 2003 and 2008. Thibaud has always been a hard ripper, skating every spot on his path.
ATTRAPER AU VOL BEHIND THE VIEWFINDER Pt 2 Frenchfred 2017-11-03 | In these series I break down how I captured some shots from my book 'Attraper Au Vol', of Andrew Brophy, Javier Mendizabal, Brandon Westgate and at the swimming pool where I learned how to swim as a kid! I move thru my process and give deep insights about some legendary sessions.
ATTRAPER AU VOL BEHIND THE VIEWFINDER Pt 1 Frenchfred 2017-07-13 | In these series I break down how I captured some shots from my book 'Attraper Au Vol', of Ali Boulala, Jeremie Daclin and Charles Collet. I move thru my process and gives deep insights about some legendary sessions.
ATTRAPER AU VOL - SHOOTING THE COVER Frenchfred 2017-07-11 | Embark on a submersing video during an epic photoshoot that led to shoot the cover of French Fred's photography book 'Attraper Au Vol'. Featuring french skateboarder Charles Collet, in a secret location near Lyon, France. The book can be purchased online here: http://frenchfredboutique.bigcartel.com/product/attraper-au-vol-book-second-edition
BFFS TOM PENNY Frenchfred 2016-12-23 | After not filming anything with the elusive Tom Penny for ÉS ' Menikmati, Frenchfred finally clocked in some footage with him for Flip's "Sorry" video, circa 2001, then later for "Really Sorry". Enjoy this final episode of BFFS, then be sure to subscribe to Frenchfred's Youtube channel where he will keep on sharing some of his archives.www.youtube.com/bloodyfrenchfred
BFFS ED TEMPLETON & FRIENDS PART 2 Frenchfred 2016-12-22 | Ed Templeton and the Toy Machine team keeps on shredding the streets of Berlin, with some help by Geoff Rowley and Arto Saari. Featuring Kerry Getz, Mike Maldonado, Elissa Steamer, Matt Mumford
BFFS ED TEMPLETON & FRIENDS PART 1 Frenchfred 2016-12-22 | The Tempster has always been close with Geoff Rowley and Arto Saari, and could often be seen shredding during Flip filming missions. In the 2nd half of this episode, Ed and his Toy Machine crew, as well as his 2 Flip mates, are shredding the streets of Berlin, in 1999.
BFFS JB GILLET SKATEBOARD STATIC Frenchfred 2016-12-21 | What if skate spots would move instead of the skateboarder? This was made reality with JB Gillet for Cliché's Freedom Fries video. Skating on rolling spots is not so easy as you might think!!!
BFFS JEREMIE DACLIN PART 2 Frenchfred 2016-12-20 | French skateboarder Jeremie Daclin has been skating hard since the late 80's. He never made the move to California, as he always believed in the potential of european skateboarding, and so to support the scene, he created Cliché Skateboards in 1997.
BFFS JEREMIE DACLIN PART 1 Frenchfred 2016-12-20 | French skateboarder Jeremie Daclin has been skating hard since the late 80's. He never made the move to California, as he always believed in the potential of european skateboarding, and so to support the scene, he created Cliché Skateboards in 1997.
BFFS FLIP ARIZONA PART 2 Frenchfred 2016-12-19 | The Flip team having some fun times at Geoff Rowley's Arizona retreat.
BFFS FLIP ARIZONA PART 1 Frenchfred 2016-12-19 | The Flip team having some fun times at Geoff Rowley's Arizona retreat.
BFFS LYON SESSIONS Frenchfred 2016-12-15 | Lyon, my hometown, has always been a great city for skateboarding, full of spots, that we can skate all the time, without hassle. The local scene is very strong, and we often welcome lots of pro skaters here.
BFFS - THE SECRET DITCH Frenchfred 2016-10-05 | This spot was around Lyon. It was meant to collect the kerosene spills from the nearby airport. So what you see in there is not just water. It did smells very bad. I think at some point we thought about throwing a match in there, but we figured out it would have been a very very bad idea. SO we focused on skateboarding.
BFFS - CHARLES COLLET Frenchfred 2016-10-05 | French skateboarder Charles Collet has always been ripping hard, and also been slamming very hard. Nowadays you can see some video parts with slams only I know!
BFFS - FLIP TEAM VISITING TOM PENNY Frenchfred 2016-10-04 | In 1999 the Flip team gathered to go visit Tom Penny at his house in the french countryside where he was living at the time with his mom. The mini ramp in the barn had been built couple years before by Geoff Rowley and Rune Glifberg, so Tom could keep on skating while in the middle of nowhere with no street spots to skate. As you can see in this raw edit, this was the very first time Bastien Salabanzi came on a Flip trip, and here you can see him meeting Rowley and Boulala for the first time. You can aslo notice US skateboarder Eric Brockman, but that trip was not fun at all for him, being the only US dude...adding to that the pressure on being on such an intense team of heavy rippers, it was too much for him to handle and he quit Flip soon after that mission in France.
BFFS - BOB BURNQUIST Frenchfred 2016-10-04 | The vert ramp wizardry of the unique Bob Burnquist. Well, is even shredding the streets, and eating some dirt doing it! Circa 2000.
BFFS - GIPSY TOUR #2 PART 2 Frenchfred 2016-10-01 | Cliché's Gypsy Tours were based on TV reality format, so a king was crowned at the end. For this 2nd edition in 2007, Ricardo Fonseca surely earned his crown by showering under the rain on a spanish freeway, in true gypsy style!Featuring Lucas Puig, Charles Collet, Joey Brezinski, Andrew Brophy, Jeremie Daclin, Ricardo Fonseca, Vincent Bressol, JJ Rousseau, Javier Mendizabal, Thibaud Fradin and the Gypsy guest Fred Gall.Additional filming by Vincent Chassignole and Jeremie Daclin.
BFFS - GIPSY TOUR #2 PART 1 Frenchfred 2016-10-01 | No wonder why Cliché have been sticking to their Gipsy Tour format: the team has nothing else to do than skating hard everyday, with minimum budget to survive with only 10 euros a day, and sleeping under the stars!Featuring Lucas Puig, Charles Collet, Joey Brezinski, Andrew Brophy, Jeremie Daclin, Ricardo Fonseca, Vincent Bressol, JJ Rousseau, Javier Mendizabal, Thibaud Fradin and the Gypsy guest Fred Gall.Additional filming by Vincent Chassignole and Jeremie Daclin.
NEW WORLD ELEMENT - EUROPE Frenchfred 2016-05-24 | The Europe episode of the New World Element serie.Starring Jarne Verbruggen & Jacopo Carozzi and featuring their team mates. Music by Prussia. It was fun to edit.
LE SKATE CEST NUL Frenchfred 2016-04-15 | Notre remake en 2014 de "Rouli-Roulant" , le film de Claude Jutra de 1966, commandé par l'Office Nationale du Film du Canada, starring Flo Mirtain. C'était vraiment marrant et rafraichissant à faire.
SKATEBOARDING SUCKS Frenchfred 2016-04-15 | Our redux of the Devil's Toy film from 1966, part of a 10 films serie currated by the National Film Board of Canada. Please excuse Flo Mirtain's english! Ah ah it was very fun to make.
THE 25000 STAIRS Frenchfred 2016-02-13 | Another funny animation found on Instagram, this time made by @ciaranmograph , from the picture shot by Olivier Chassignole. The fans are being funny!
25 STAIRS - JAWS Frenchfred 2016-02-12 | I guess by now you haven't missed the full video on the Thrasher website, otherwise, go check it out: http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/jaws-vs-the-lyon-25
BOULALA 25 STAIRS - THE MAKE!!!! Frenchfred 2016-01-30 | Yeah guys we had an evil master plan with Ali for over 13 years!!! We pretended he didn't make it, let the hype do the job, then when no one expects it, we are releasing the make we kept secret the whole bloody time, just before the Jaws footy drops out!!! Ah ah ah. Would have been a master plan! Funny animation found on Instagram, done by @solojazz It cracked me up so bad
THE BOULALA 25 STAIRS Frenchfred 2016-01-29 | Alright let’s watch this one more time before the Jaws video drops sometime soon. Ali strongly paved the way for this set of stairs to be ollied. Everytime I’ve filmed a session there, it was incredibly intense and stresful! I once spotted american BMXers checking it out, and I believe they just thought it was absolutely too massive. Big up to Ali, Big up to Jaws. You have no idea of how crazy it is until you go there. Funny enough, it’s in my neighbourhood!
DAVID BOWIE - SPACE ODDITY (BASS & DRUMS TRACKS) Frenchfred 2016-01-11 | The epic bass and drums track from David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (40th anniversary) re-edition. That's so cool to have access to the separate tracks!!! Check it out if you haven't yet!!! geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/space-oddity-40th-anniversary/id1039401809?mt=1&app=musicI mixed some of those tracks for the Flo Mirtain commercial I made for Cliché a long while ago: youtube.com/watch?v=reqkk-cJZ54
ARTO SAARI in FLIP SORRY HQ Frenchfred 2016-01-11 | Arto 's part in Sorry, with the full intro with Tom Penny's sequence and the slam cartoon. Editing on 2 Bowie songs was just the best thing for me, being such a huge Bowie fan. RIP DB. Thanks for the inspiration.
LEICA SL - SKATEBOARDING LANDSCAPES Frenchfred 2015-12-01 | I was commissionned by Leica to shoot pictures with their new SL camera system in the summer of 2015. I decided to go shoot in Los Angeles with the Element team. The focus was on photography, so i din't shoot much video with the SL, and there was no plan to make such short video. But after reviewing the footage, I had to do a little something with it. Originally I wanted to turn into b&w all of the clips, but the nice colors recorded by the camera didn't push me into that direction. There is pretty much no post-production at all on the footage.Featuring NAssim Guammaz, Nick Garcia, Dominick Walker, Brandon Westgate, Alex Lawton, Ethan Loy and Adrien Coillard.Music by Mont Analoguemont-analogue.bandcamp.com/album/crossed-hills-ep
ALL NEW BFFS - JJ ROUSSEAU Frenchfred 2015-11-04 | Archival footage of JJ Rousseau from his Cliché days, especially from the "Bon Appetit" video era (2003). Check out the tech gnar action of Jean-Jacques.
LUY PA SIN 1997 SPONSOR ME TAPE Frenchfred 2015-09-24 | Old footage of the all time classic french ripper Luy Pa sin! I always loved filming with him, because as you can see, his style as always been epic, on top of being a very good technical skateboarder... He is such a legend, always underrated to my opinion. This is a weird kind of Sponsor Me Tape...we didn't film for it, it's just a compilation of random footage I had of Luy Pa... and I went experimental on the editing and the music... it was the beginning of editing with a computer... But so, long time before making "Menikmati", I started filming for ÉS with Luy Pa and Stéphane Larance, as the brand wanted to start compiling footage of all it's international riders... Some really cool footage got lost forever after we sent it to the USA... The quality is a little weird... it's all shot on Hi8, but the computer I used wasn't working full resolution, so that explains that! Enjoy anyway, Luy Pa 's style is killer!!!
BFFS- FLIP SESSIONS PART2 Frenchfred 2015-08-30 | Part 2 of the Flip team sessioning a whole bunch of spots, for the filming of "Sorry".Watch Part1:www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Ay1-B0fY4
BFFS - FLIP SORRY SESSIONS PART 1 Frenchfred 2015-08-30 | Various sessions with the Flip team, while filming for the "Sorry" video. Shot around 2001-2002.Watch Part2:youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1r_UWqL7Y
ELEMENT PERSPECTIVE - FRENCHFRED Frenchfred 2015-08-29 | To celebrate the start of my advocacy with Element skateboards, and the launch of my Element Perspective t-shirts series, I made this video covering the history of my passion for b&w photography.http://us.elementbrand.com/mens/page/element-perspective-french-fred
BFFS JB GILLET Frenchfred 2015-07-15 | Most of the clips are from JB's Cliché era, when he got on the team in 2004, and we were filming for his introducing part in "Freedom Fries". Some older or more recent footy is mixed in there.Additional filming by Vincent Chassignole.
CUATRO SUEÑOS PEQUEÑOS - MAKING OF Frenchfred 2015-06-29 | I made this "making of" for the skateboarding film "Cuatro Sueños Pequeños" directed by Thomas Campbell, on which I was director of photography. The film was starring Javier Mendizabal and Madars Apse and was shot exclusively on film. You can download the movie on iTunes: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/cuatro-suenos-pequenos/id732710386?uo=6You can also get the beautiful Book/Dvd on umyeaharts.com and the epic soundtrack by the Chiwoks: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/soundtrack-to-cuatro-suenos/id820640953?uo=6
ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS / SKETCH FLORAL COMMERCIAL Frenchfred 2015-06-19 | My latest video project, for Element Skateboards, featuring Nick Garcia.Music: "Take On The World" by Wavves.
BFFS LYON HUBBA SESSIONS Frenchfred 2015-06-02 | Lyon's infamous hubba was not that easy to skate. It was short, steep and slippery, with a quick run up and a not so smooth landing… Many various pros came here and battled for their tricks, not always with success. RIP hubba.
BFFS SPECIAL - LYON SESSIONS/BONUS EPISODE Frenchfred 2015-06-01 | Extra Lyon footy in addition of the episode on Thrasher... featuring a whole lot of people: Lucas Puig, Hugo Liard, Franklin Stephens, Antoine Bellini, Mathieu Hilaire, Thibaud Fradin, Nicolas Caron, Stéphane Giret, Al Boglio, Nick Droz, Lee Smith, Nico Levet, Jacques Bertholon, Junior, Marley, Love Eneroth, Mike O'Meally, Philipp Schuster, Geoff Rowley, Ricardo Fonseca, Mark Appleyard, Vincent Bressol and Ali Boulala.
BFFS - CALIFORNIAN SESSIONS Frenchfred 2015-05-09 | Featuring Ronnier Creager, Beagle, Arto Saari, Tosh Townend, Alex Moul, Jon Miner, Mike Manzoori and Sharon, John Rattray, Train Wreck, Mark Appleyard, Colt Canon, Erik Ellington, Matt Mumford, Hugo Liard, Flo Marfaing, Jani Laitiala, Jim Greco, Richard Angelides, Andrew Reynolds, Andy Bautista, Eric Koston, Rodrigo TX, Ray Barbee, Rune Glifberg, RIck McCrank, Atiba Jefferson. Additional filming by Lee Dupont.
BFFS - ARTO SAARI & KERRY GETZ IN BARCELONA Frenchfred 2015-05-09 | Yes Kerry Getz was on ES for a short time, until he decided to quit on his own, as he was feeling too much pressure being on such a heavy team. His freak out at the end of the episode perfectly illustrates the weight he had on his shoulders, and Kerry's notorious "Hockey Temper". This was in 1999, and Arto was already skating like a beast, doing everything bigger and longer.Additional filming by Arto Saari.
LUCAS PUIG BONUS - BFFS -SKATING LYONS HDV PLAZA Frenchfred 2015-04-20 | Enjoy this BFFS bonus episode of Lucas Puig shredding the HDV plaza in Lyon. Shot during the making of Cliché videos "Bon Appetit" and "Freedom Fries".
PONTUS ALV BONUS EPISODE - BEHIND THE FRENCHFRED SCENES Frenchfred 2015-03-23 | Here is an exclusive episode of Pontus Alv, aka Klez. During the making of Cliché's "Bon Appetit", Alv's alter ego mister Klez would sometime show up // Not so long before the video was about to come out, Pontus decided to quit Cliché. Some of the footage that would have been in his part, was many years later used by Pontus in his amazing video "In Search Of The Miraculous", that you can watch again on www.polarskateco.com // Yeah that's right, Pontus is now rocking the world with his epic company Polar Skate Co!Enjoy this episode and share it around if you like it!
CLICHÉ SKATEBOARDS - GRIPART SERIES Frenchfred 2015-01-26 | Commercial for Cliché Skateboards, about their Gripart Series designed by Javier Mendizabal. Shot in Lyon.
BEHIND THE FRENCHFRED SCENES/XMAS SPECIAL Frenchfred 2014-12-24 | This is where Frenchfred started filming some 20 years ago, with the dynamic Lyon scene, with people like JB Gillet, on this iconic plaza, called HDV. It has been the main spot in Lyon for ever, and still alive, despite the thousands of cracks on the ground. It's not in the best shape, but locals are still shredding it everyday.Featuring JB Gillet, Jeremie Daclin, Jeff Berthon, Hamid Bahri, Yves Goyatton, Stéphane Giret, Julien Gilliot, Karl, Luy Pa Sin...
