Isenseven – Teenage Love Graffiti (2008)

Number 7. This was the year where Felix was officially made partner at Isenseven and worked full time 24/7 on the film with Vincent and Alex. The movie’s name also came from Felix. We were selecting footage and saw a folder on his laptop named “Teenage Love Graffiti”. It was just a working title for something he had thought of a while ago and we decided to give this name to the new film. It doesn’t really have a meaning. It just sounds cool and lets people interpret their own definition.

As usual, we did all kinds of crazy trips that year. But he most memorable ones were the East Coast RV trip and the Grotli shoot. Half of the crew took two RV’s from New York up through Vermont all the way to Montreal and hit every spot they found on the way. Our friend Travis Limoge, the good heart of Isenseven in the States, also joined for the trip.
And then was the legendary 2008 Grotli shoot. Again, we went to HC’s hotel in Norway but this time it was 10 days of non stop bluebird and it was the very first time we had our own private heli shoot on the jump HC’s brother built for us.

We stepped up the intros a notch this season as well and brought in VFX wizard Kevin Karbon who did some pretty crazy magic during our editing process. The backgrounds in Michi’s intro, the floating water droplets in the André/Peter part, the asteroid crashing scene in Ludde’s part and a bunch of other stuff where his doings.
The film started in full on party-mode with the intro and the epic track “Music” by Nid & Sancy, followed by Michi’s crazy, over the top opening part. This probably was the most party suitable film we ever made. TLG marked Ludde’s first real season filming with us and he delivered like a boss with his first fullpart. Torgeir’s first real part was non stop fun in your face and Botner summed up the film with a seemingly never ending closer part. Unfortunately the season was plagued with the injuries of Marco Smolla, Christian Haller, André Tröltzsch, Chris Patsch and Fips Strauss and some of our homies were missing or cut short in the film.

Featured riders: André Kuhlmann, Andre Tröltzsch, René Schnöller, Michi Zirngibl, Tobi Strauss, Erik Botner, Ludwig Lejkner, HC Bergheim, Fredrik Evensen, Xaver Hoffmann, Joonas Mustonen, Ethan Morgan, Peter König, Christophe Schmidt, Torgeir Berre, Marco Smolla, Christian Haller, Chris Patsch, Forest Bailey