Skip to main content
yanco Home
Menu
  • Home
  • watch
  • magazine
  • calendar
  • index
  • Subscribe
Search Log in
  • nl
  • en
You are here
  • Home
  • Watch
  • Together
Watch now
  • Availability worldwide
  • Language no dialogue

part of
Trick Shots

Together

Leon Washere, USA, 2024, 6’

Together is a silent compilation of short, animated clips by Matthew Wohlrab, better known by his artist name Leon Washere. His process consists of rotoscoping live-action skate footage: each frame is printed, hand-painted, and rescanned.

Skate videos aim to look quick and effortless; a single trick may last mere seconds. Wohlrab slows the sequences down, highlighting the real time and perseverance required. A skate clip is rarely shot in one take, but rather the result of consistent, repetitive practice, each attempt handled with the same amount of care and dedication—one frame at a time.

Most of Wohlrab’s work is made in collaboration with other skaters and part of a longer live-action video. In Together, they are stripped from this context, rendering the skaters anonymous so that they all come to represent the collective.

Emma Daelman

Bio Leon Washere

Leon Washere, Matthew Wohlrab’s alias, is a skater and artist based in the USA who recreates skate footage through painted animations. He takes classic and modern tricks and reimagines them through animated paintings and music. His curated collection captures iconic tricks by some of the most stylish skaters. His work shows his passion for skateboarding and art, as well as the personalities and eras he’s experienced through skate videos.

Sluiten
Brown Bag (Ari Marcopoulos, 2020)
Brown Bag (Ari Marcopoulos, 2020)
essay
Read more

In Search of Authenticity

Image-making in Skate Culture

Tianyu Jiang
14.11.2026

In 1998, Nike launched an ad series, “What If We Treated All Athletes the Way We Treat Skateboarders?”, featuring parodies that portrayed runners, golfers, and tennis players being regulated and harassed for simply playing their sports. The quirky subversion of the public scrutiny skaters face reveals the brand’s ambition to enter the lucrative market of underground youth by showing it gets the community. Now considered iconic for its creativity, the campaign was received poorly by the skaters themselves at the time. Their skepticism toward outsiders’ image-making attests to the subculture’s anti-establishment values, which have long found expression in DIY practices of self-documentation.

Read more

Credits

Editor
Leon Washere
Animation
Leon Washere
Producer
Leon Washere
558
animation skate part

Watch more

Read more

In Curve Notes _ Stream

Flavia Regaldo, Portugal, 2023, 7’

Hand-painted watercolours explore bodies, desire, and the tension between both in this experimental animated film. Due to an explosion of colour and movement that escapes classical animation, an unusual sensorial force is achieved. Alternating colours, lines, and density, the drawings question pornography and normative sexuality.

Read more
Read more

How Are You?

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France, 2025, 31’

In this hybrid 3D animated film, a pseudo-intellectual menagerie reflects on the contemporary political landscape on the other side of the Corsican Sea through dry wit and Disney fonts.

Read more
Read more

Oh Willy...

Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Belgium, 2011, 17’

A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony he grew up in to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves Willy in a state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.

Read more
Read more

Operation Jane Walk

Total Refusal, Austria, 2018, 17’

The militaristic environment of the dystopian multiplayer shooter game Tom Clancy’s The Division is reused for a pacifist city tour. During a walk through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architectural history and urbanism are discussed.

Read more
Read more

Paradise

Laura Vandewynckel, Belgium, 2014, 6’

People are heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although their paths do cross at times, they never really seem to meet. Paradise is a light-hearted yet critical reflection on the ethics of tourism.

Read more
Read more

In Search of Productive Friction

Harshit Vishwakarma, Hugo Pilate, Pedro Gil Farias, Portugal, 2024, 5’

This machinima explores the perspective of a self-conscious replica of a plaza inside the video game Skater XL. The plaza reflects on its original, its own condition, and its relationship to a peculiar visitor: a white silhouette of a skater.

Read more
Read more

Scum Mutation

Ov, France, 2020, 10’

In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

Read more
Read more

Mamada Perdida

Joke Van den hof, Belgium, 2016, 6’

It is sometimes said that if a man places a pearl under the skin of his penis, he will bring the woman the greatest pleasure. He grants her the greatest of all pleasures, while she will give him anything he desires. After a playful love dance, she melts into him, at the cost of losing themselves in each other to arrive at their deepest desires.

Read more
Log in or register to start watching.

Subscribe for €30 and get one-year access to the 90+ films in our streaming library. This supports not only our magazine but also the filmmakers we represent. 

subscribe

yanco is a magazine and streaming library for short-form moving image

kortfilm.be vzw
Boondaalse Steenweg 249
1050 Elsene
BE 0478 441 315
info@yanco.be

with the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) of the Flemish Government

VAF
  • about
  • colophon
  • privacy policy
Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Letterboxd
design by de Ronners
website by eps en kaas