Mike Mills turned a 17-minute skate doc into pure California melancholy poetry.
A documentary about top-ranking skateboarder Ed Templeton, his artwork and life in Huntington Beach, California.
Direction
Mills' early signature: intimate, lo-fi, emotionally precise.
Production
Everything shot in Templeton's actual world, zero artifice.
Director
Mike Mills
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mills shot this before his feature debut Thumbsucker, using it to develop his observational style.
Templeton's Toy Machine was peak '90s skate culture; this doc captures the moment before everything went corporate.
US
