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Episode 18 - Fred Mortagne


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Episode 18 with Fred Mortagne aka French Fred, skateboarder, photographer & videographer from Lyon, France. 

Together we talked about him growing up skating in Lyon, picking up a camera to film his friends, making his first local scene videos, sending footage to 411vm, meeting with Pierre-André Senizergues (founder of Sole Technologies) and getting offered to film the éS footwear video project which became Menikmati, going straight into the Flip "Sorry" video, coming back to Lyon in the early 2000's and accepting Jérémie Daclin's offer to become the Cliché Skateboards filmer, getting into photography and developing his own style with the help & advice of Ed Templeton, collaborating with Leica & Element, helping out with the logistics & filming Jaws ollieing the famous Lyon 25 stair set in 2015 (attempted by Ali Boulala in 2002), his many current projects... 


  • Intro (00:13) 
  • Growing up skating in Lyon (01:27) 
  • Starting to film & shoot photos (08:26) 
  • First skate video ever watched (11:25) 
  • Making “the magical mystery video”, Fred’s first local Lyon video (20:45) 
  • Starting to work with 411vm (21:26) 
  • Starting to work on Menikmati (24:48) 
  • First trip to California in 98 (30:53) 
  • Jumping on the Flip video right after Menikmati (41:04) 
  • After Sorry, moving back to Lyon (45:15) 
  • Becoming the Cliché filmer (46:00) 
  • Getting into photography (51:56) 
  • Ed Templeton inspiration (56:10) 
  • Fred’s style of photography (01:04:29) 
  • Element advocate (01:07:30) 
  • Collaboration with Leica (01:10:26) 
  • Lyon 25 stair set (01:12:16) 
  • Current projects (01:19:50) 
  • Best lesson learned from skateboarding (01:24:16) 
  • Friends questions (01:26:29) 
  • Conclusion (01:36:59)  

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