BCN Sports Film Festival

"First Love" will be shown at the 6th international FICTS festival in Barcelona. The festival is held in the centre of the city from may 5th to 9th 2015. I'm really hyped that the film is going to get screened in such an important city for skateboarding worldwide. Hopefully a lot of people find their way to the festival and have a good time. BCN sports film fest

Up in Smoke Festival

For the second time the up in smoke festival attracted tons of people from all over europe to listen to some heavy music in the Z7, Pratteln. A lot of very high rated rock bands like Fu Manchu, Kadavar or Blues Pills did the honors.

Together with the Dynamic Frame folks we covered the whole festival and produced the recap clip. Enjoy

Short documentary about the Stoner-Psychedelic-Dooom Festival UP IN SMOKE in Sitzerland. Hightlights of the first day include: FU MANCHU, BLUES PILLS, CONAN and UFOMAMMUT.

connect.zone Commercial

This clip was produced for an app called "connect.zone". Valentin Brotbek and I created all the animations and Dynamic Frame did the shooting of the scenes.

Thanks for the job and good luck with the app!

GASTRO 2.0: Im Restaurant ewig auf den Kellner warten war gestern! Mit der Connect.Zone App können Bestellungen einfacher über Tablets organisiert werden, Aufträge an Kellner und Köche verteilt werden und vieles mehr. Wie das genau funktioniert, erfahrt ihr in unserem Imagefilm auf spannende und humorvolle Art. Kunde: www.technikpartner.ch Produktion: www.dynamic-frame.ch CAST Chef - Daniel Mezger Kellner Jan - Joachim Aeschlimann Frau Meili - Andrea Zahler Kellnerin - Soraya Trigo Koch 1 - Steph Stiefel Koch 2 - Chris Haefeli CREW Regie - Jonas Ulrich Produktionsleitung - Luzius Fischer Kamera - Jonas Fischer Kameraassistenz - André Guadagno Oberbeleuchter - Oli Muff DIT & Beleuchter - Simon Bitterli Ton - Benoit Barraud Styling & Kostüme - Madleina von Reding Ausstattung - Andrea Schmidlin Ausstattungsassistenz - Katharina Meier Set-Aufnahmeleitung - Claudio Sipka POST Schnitt - Jonas Ulrich Colorist - Jonas Fischer Sounddesign & Mix - René Zingg, Soundville Motion Graphics - Christian Müller & Valentin Brotbeck Compositing & Captioning - Claudio Sipka

First Love - ein Erklärungsversuch

It's a wrap! "First Love - an attempt of an explanation" is the result of my second bachelor year.

· Winner "Special Jury Award" – Upcoming filmmakers festival in Lucerne · Winner "Best Short Film" – Madrid Skate Film Festival · Winner “Best Content” – Academy Shorts Festival · 2nd Place – shnit.org Slam Movie Night “Skateboarding doesn’t make you a skateboarder: not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.” - Lance Mountain What is it, that keeps skateboarders trying a trick over and over again - ignoring the pain and frustration after several slams? "First Love" tries to show outsiders of the skateboard community what the fascination of this special sport is all about. But also addresses the die-hard skateboarders all around the world. Past Screenings (selection) Youki International Youth Media Festival - Wels, Austria Madrid Skate Film Festival - Madrid, Spain Luksuz Festival – Krško, Slovenia International Skateboard Film Festival - Berlin, Germany Barcelona International FICTS Festival - Barcelona, Spain Gässli Film Festival - Basel, Switzerland Upcoming Film Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland shnit International Shortfilmfestival – Berne, Switzerland Skateboarders: Martin Zbinden, Jan Solenthaler, Christian Burgunder, Samuel Aeby, Christoph Rediger, Adi Widmer, Adrian Wendel, Rinchen Barbee, Cyrill Weizenegger, Will Twala Voice: Julian Koechlin Music: Thank You Note (Inst) - The Wandas http://christiantaro.com https://fb.com/christiantaro https://instagram.com/taro.tornado

The planing of the film probably took about half a year including the writing of the script. Thanks again to everyone that was involved and made the film even possible!

The film is going to get screened at several festivals before it'll find its way into the web.

Schweizer Jugendfilmfestival in Luzern Youki - International Youth Media Festival in Österreich International Skateboard Film Festival in Berlin

I'm really happy and hope it's gonna do good at the different festivals!

Purple Park Contest 2014

Here's a little clip about the annual Purple Park Contest in basel, switzerland.

Auch dieses Jahr fand im Purple Park Basel, von allen liebevoll inJugi genannt, ein Skatecontest statt. Gute Stimmung, strahlendes Wetter und harte Tricks machten diesen Event zu einem Highlight. Fotos und einen kurzen Bericht findet ihr hier: http://thatnoise.ch/blog/injugy-contest-review film/edit: www.christiantaro.com

The That Noise Magazine made a short review that features some good fotos by Lucian Zweifel.

Thanks to the mastermind behind the scenes Martin Zbinden, Doodah and everyone that participated. See you next year!

Frieda Musik & Canson - Moments like this

Musikclip/Promo für Frieda Musik & Canson.

Every moment in life has it's own and special soundtrack. Eclectic and in it's usual Frieda attitude the "Moments Like This EP" captures these snap-shots, transforming them perfectly into sound. The three original tracks, composed by Ordinary Subject, sweeten the party horizon with the right groove.

Directed & Edited: Bardo Eicher Cast: Raquel Esteban Crew: Ari Zehnder, Marc Heer, Dario Bolli, Rebecca Annies, Christian Taro

DillySocks Commercial

The Zurich sock manufacturer "DillySocks" hit me up to do a short animation for their commercial. When I've heard about the whole concept of the clip I didn't have to think twice. Eventually some naked skin makes a good impression in a portfolio!

Website: www.dillysocks.com Wie setzen wir DillySocks am Besten in Szene? bzw. Wie lenken wir so wenig wie möglich durch andere Kleidungsstücke oder Accessoires von ihnen ab? Klar! Nichts polarisiert mehr, als eine nackte Person die nur mit Socken bekleidet ist. Zugleich gibt es aber auch nichts das unpassender oder peinlicher ist.

... and cut!

It's done! We completed the shoot for my second degree bachelor film. After several slams, countless tries and a nearly broken foot we recorded pretty much all that was planned. Thanks to the boys who gave their everything and the whole crew that supported me! It was truly a blast... even though we were freezing our asses of!

abgedreht

Now I'm gonna lock myself into the editing room, scan the whole footage and make a selection. I'm really excited to get all the different parts together in the editing... let's hope for the best!

"Ink." at the Schweizer Jungfilmfestival Luzern

On the 22. and 23. of november the "Schweizer Jungfilmfestival Luzern" is held for the 10th time in Lucerne. Our short experimental film "ink." will be screened on those two days in the bourbaki cinema. We're quite excited and hope to see some familiar faces... and some new ones as well of course! So come by and have a chat and a beer with us!