The young no-budget filmmaker Florian Schneider follows the skateboarding legend Bobby Puleo around New York City. Sometimes he wishes he weren’t a skateboarder, Puleo says. Or he should get paid for it. “Just to do me.” Instead he works at a diner. Because his art – collages of notes and photographs he finds in the streets and collects in his chaotic apartment – doesn’t provide a living either. Schneider’s brief study is a very intimate portrait of the skateboarding fanatic.
About the artist
Florian Schneider was born in 1983 in provincial German North Hessen. School, art school and street education in Kassel, Hamburg and Berlin. Kunsthochschule Kassel, University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK), while working both for himself and for television in all imaginable and unimaginable formats. He photographs for fun, makes films because he loves the risk, rides his skateboard to deal with the conflicts it causes. At the moment he’s working on his home-page and on his second university degree.
Pushed (2011)
bobby. (2010)
The Final Curtain (2009)
Fakebook.de (2007)
Swimming (2006)
Denn Sie Wissen Nicht Was Sie Tun (2004)
