“Skateboarding is an individualised thing. Everyone does their own trick. You’re not dependent on a team or collaboration to skate by yourself. But it’s a community-based thing. I’ve been thinking about this idea of an individualised kind of methodology or practice within a community setting. Which in many ways I think is related to local filmmaking scenes or experimental filmmaking scenes. Those closely resemble skate culture.” (Simon Liu)

In Focus artist Simon Liu discusses how skateboarding videos and subculture impacted his filmmaking practice.