LOVE, DRUGS & CALIFORNIA SUNSETS

Dragonslayer // Director’s Statement

I met Skreech at a party in an abandoned airfield off the I-10 in Chino, California right after our country’s economic collapse. He had a lime-green mohawk and was wearing a matching Screamers t-shirt in honor of the L.A. punk band that never recorded an album. He looked malnourished and lost, and claimed he was on 5 tabs of acid. It was impossible to talk to him; his head was lost in the clouds. Then i saw him skate. I think Skreech is like a lot of kids from his generation—smart enough to know a potentially bleak future looms and scrambling to figure out a way to survive in it. He’s also on a wavelength all his own. Dragonslayer is my attempt to capture this wavelength and preserve it.