Cops, Priests, Grandmothers & Kwik-E-Mart clerks all agree... KOTR is bananas. Time for a trip down memory lane. 2005 was a good year for KOTR, featuring high level trickery and top shelf hijinx.

Making Noise chronicles the long struggle of the skateboarders of Northfield, Minnesota, to secure a permanent place for their sport. Shot in close collaboration with the latest generation of skateboarders, the film follows their efforts as they meet with city officials to fundraise, envision, and design a skatepark that seems to fit nowhere. A voiceover narration recorded by the skaters and based on city records, reveals the inefficiency of a process slowed down by outdated stereotypes about skateboarding and a thinly veiled resistance to the skateboarders. The film calls into question Northfield’s open-minded and friendly reputation in light of the community’s delay to find a place for its own youths. Making Noise bears witness to young people’s resilience and perseverance as it exposes the victories and failures of the civic process in small town America.

A documentary on a group of young skateboarders from Kemerovo.

Still images of a group of young skateboarders in Seattle, Wa.

A portrait of three female skaters in Switzerland.

Tech Deck Miniature Skateboards and Four One One Video Productions have gone to the comers of the earth to round up the best finger skateboarders in the world and bring them to you. Introducing Darin Langhorst from Saskatoon, Canada, and Damien Bernadet and Tony Pauthex from Dijon, France. Darin gets you started learning the basics of finger skateboarding, and each rider is featured in a section that lets you know a little bit about them, their motivations, and showcases their amazing skills.

Escapist proudly presents Our World, featuring Sean Malto, Mikey Santillan, Shaun McKay, Joseph Lopez, Josh Crane, Josh White, Bryant Doerfler, Keelin Austin, Scotty Laird, Rod Harper, Ernie Torres, Dillon Aguilar, Garrett Olinger, Mike Webb, Ryan Pearce, Max Chilen and Jesse Doan.  Edited by Ryan Lovell. Filmed by Tyler Krupski, Dylan Burke and Ryan Lovell in Kansas City, LA, Japan and Puerto Rico.

Brutalism is an abstract and conceptual execution of how skateboarders see and make use of urban spaces. With this film we aim to showcase a skater’s notion with regards to the concrete environment we find ourselves in every day. It speaks about a skater’s reinterpretation of space - and the advancement of how these spaces are used in ways that the architects themselves could never have imagined.  A skater offers a revolutionary perspective for the architect, one that allows you to see buildings beyond what they were intended to be.