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Skatopia – Sk8 or Git!
An old (but long) blog entry about city boyz terrorized into believing that Convict IS Skatopia.
Film Threat – Skatopia: 88 Acres Of Anarchy
This new review on Film Threat spends so much time talking about Skatopia the place… it makes me think he must’ve liked the movie!
SKATOPIA: 88 ACRES OF ANARCHY
If someone told you that a bastion of pure, unadulterated freedom exists in the United States, where would you expect to would find that place? Unless your answer is “in the middle of nowhere, Ohio,” you’re probably wrong.
Brewce Martin’s Skatopia, all 88 acres of it, floats out in the Ohio wilderness. Part skate park, park skateboarding legacy and museum and part anarchistic commune, it’s a grimy bubble of pure freedom; a skateboarder’s dream and end-of-the-world Thunderdome all at the same time. Drop by and party at their huge blowouts, live on site, skateboard, set your car on fire, have your own demolition derby, engage in an orgy of fireworks (or just a regular orgy)… anything goes at Skatopia.
Laurie House & Colin Powers’ Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy offers an unflinching gaze at what this complete freedom looks like, for better or worse.Continued…
It’s a Classic!? Turner Classic Movies is selling Skatopia!
Skatopia: 88 Acres Of Anarchy (2010)
What else would you call a skateboarding-centric Utopia but…”Skatopia”? Observing everyday life on an Appalachian farm commune formed by hillbilly skating fanatics who maintain a demolition derby society otherwise governed by anarchy, this documentary reveals the rural location as a cult-like haven for enthusiasts looking to escape conventional attitudes of all kinds.
It may be classic, but discriminating buyers want the Collector’s Edition.
Skatopia hits PBS… Brewce & Laurie Video Interview
Laurie House and Brewce Martin of Skatopia are interveiwed by Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake Journal about Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy. The movie will be playing June 11 at 11PM at the Lake Placid Film Forum.
Athens Film Festival Photos – Better late than never
This is an older post that I forgot to put up… oops!
We had a fantastic pair of screenings in Athens, OH. Sold out twice. Here are some images.
Out front of the classic Athena Theater courtesy David Hooker
Selections from Skatopia's museum
Brewce Martin's mom Pat came out
Brewce brought a high school sweetheart - Susie
Mountain Lake PBS talks up Skatopia – who’d ah thunk it? Tonight at 8:30 – Tomorrow Online
This Week on EXTRA
June 3rd, 2010 @ 8:30pm
LAKE PLACID FILM FORUM
The Lake Placid Film Forum is celebrating 10-years, with special guests including actors Hal Holbrook, Parker Posey, and authors William Kennedy and Jay Parini. The festival host screenings of 2 locally produced films, The Summers of Walter Hacks by Vermont filmmaker George Woodard; and Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy by filmmakers Colin Powers and Laurie House from Essex, New York.
For information on events and screenings: www.lakeplacidfilmforum.comSKATOPIA
We’ll talk with filmmaker Laurie House and Brewce Martin, who is the force behind the outrageous skateboard park in rural Appalacia.
DOUBLE FEATURE
Our film critic Rick Kisonak has his own mini-film-festival with a double feature of 2 of the summer blockbusters: Robin Hood and Macgruber.
Skatopia at the Lake Placid Film Forum!!
It’s fair to say that this’ll be the only time Skatopia shares the bill with Hal Holbrook and Parker Posey! Come check us out in Lake Placid – June 11th at 11 PM!
skatopia: 88 acres of anarchy. june 11 at 11.
May 25, 2010 by tjbrearton
There’s a lot of talk out there about anarchy, about anti-establishmentarianism. There’s a lot of talk about living the dream. The creator of the real-place “Skatopia” and his constituents are doing it. Skating, hedonism, and the impulses of the id reign. Not for the faint of heart, “Skatopia” delves into the philosophies of aggressive patriarch Brewce Martin, a self-described dictator, and the mythos of his disciples, prone to foul mouths, crash-up derby driving, and escaping from realities of life outside the park. Director of Programming for MLPBS Colin Powers and filmmaker Laurie House helm this down and dirty documentary.
“He comes to Skatopia for genuine reasons…to skateboard, get drunk, and [get] chicks….”
- Brewce, describing a regular visitor
Come for the skating, stay for the life.
Showing at the Lake Placid Film Forum Friday June 11th, at 11pm, Palace Theatre. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
SKATOPIA SOLD OUT AT MIDNIGHT!
Thank You to all the intrepid midnight filmgoers! We never guessed we’d fill the theater twice in Athens. Thanks to Brewce and the entire crew from the farm for coming out again. And to paraphrase Frank Zappa, “Thank you Athens, Ohio, wherever you are.”
Photo courtesy of David Hooker
Skatopia: By Popular Demand! Another Athens Screening
“Best Film?” One Reviewer Looks at the Athens Film Festival
This year there are some local films, that after speaking with Athena director, Ruth Bradley, could really contend to win Best Film. There is the film Skatopia that focuses on the Meigs County skate park. Bradley said that this could be the biggest of all of them and it was almost sold out when I spoke to her on Wednesday. This is a local film with local people and is being shown to a local audience. This is really cool especially for local filmmakers because the movie industry is so tough to break into and now there is an opportunity for a local production to break into the market and be shown to an audience that has vested interest in this product.
Nice write up from WOUB TV that interviewed Laurie the day before the show.
Santa Barbara Photo Gallery – Skatopia gets cowpunky
Click the pic to see the whole gallery.
Raging at Red's in SB... Brewce & Dave Reul of the Skatanic Rednecks
Read All About It! – COVERAGE!
The Santa Barbara Independent wrote us up and interviewed Brewce last week. Check out what the “indy press” thinks about hillbilly anarchists.
Remy Stratton came up from the wilds of Orange County to experience the good life in SB… check it out here.
Enjoy!
