Refugium
A skate video doubling up as the author’s film school graduation project, Refugium by Johannes Kammerer was in the works for two years and explores skateboarding as a practice of escapism, combining its aesthetic with the one of animations and visual effects to tell the story of running away into an urban Neverland — a surrealist world where you can still be a child.
Refugium means a place of retreat. I had struggled with the name for a long time and looked for a suitable title at all, but for me it describes skateboarding best.
- Johannes Kammerer