Mexico City & Paris Report — Alan Buenfil’s “SWANTASIA” Video

Mexico and France’s capital cities might not initially seem like they have much in common as skate scenes, but there’s more to the pairing than you may realize.

Alan Buenfil, an expat living in Paris, and his intercontinental crew bounced between the two in search of cutty banks and tight spaces. In Mexico, they manifest as cracked sidewalk tiles on giant hills that make up the city’s residential neighborhoods, and in Paris, they’re cobblestone descents toward the Seine’s edges.

The result is an almost dreamlike interplay between the two scenes (one that may be familiar to those who remember Carlos Didier’s “I ♥ IMMIGRANTS’” video from last year, one of Buenfil’s friends), to a point where when you actually do see a smooth, marble-tiled set of stairs, you can’t even tell which city it’s in.

Filmed and edited by Alan Buenfil.

Features Neto López, Santiago Valduga, Swann El Karoui, Joe Lascar, Alan Buenfil, Andres Loaiza (GonoGold), Miguel Bahamon, Oscar Meza, Sebastian Lemus, Nizan Kasper, Abel Bourbouze, Evan Failler, Thomas Puig, Juan González, Will Murray, Alexis David, Nour De Bary, Hugo Salomon, Tomas Oliver, Damien Resquilleur, Cristian Fleite, and Nax Fernandez.