If haven't seen any Postland Theory videos online yet it's probably because you have giant boogers in front of your eyes that you need to clean off. We met their filmer/editor Tim Schiphorst aka Von Shithorse a few seasons back on the L2A glacier filming some crusty hip. We took the gondola ride down and him and his Dutch homies, talking shit about the French the whole way down. Ever since then Tim has been an editing pack mule, producing non-stop online edits and full movies. This year all the hard work paid off when Tim and his Dutch crew won best AM movie at The Reels Film Festival and the whole shredosphere took note of them. So settle in for a chat about the past season & Postland's new movie "Periscoping", watch some clips, look out for their feature in Method Mag 14.2 and catch one of the last screenings on their premiere tour.

What are you shooting with these days?
I've got a Canon 6D with a Tamron 24-70mm 2.8, and a Sigma 15mm fisheye 2.8. First I was stoked on these DSLR's but now I'm starting to realize how much extra you have to invest besides the body.

If I lived in the Netherlands I wouldn't get to snowboard because I would get stuck in a coffee shop all day. How do you guys handle this issue? Do you have coffee shops next to the indoor?
Not right next to it but probably on the way there there's a coffee shop. It's not too bad though because smoking indoors is kind of impossible, it seems easier in places like Bear, judging by the videos that come out of that place. But honestly the only time I ever go to a coffee shop is when those L.A. River guys are visiting.
What's your personal opinion on indoor slopes? Are you happy when you're able to get out?
Indoor shredding is super nice if you want to get really good at snowboarding, cause you can hit the same rails over and over, like a million times a day. I don't really care too much about that stuff, I personally never ride indoors. I miss the long runs, the sun, the snow and even rain. For me it's much more about being outside in the mountains, making turns, finding trannies. Sometimes when there is an event indoors it's a lot of fun because those places are relatively small so you get to meet everybody and see everything from the lifts.

Where did you guys travel to this season?
We really wanted to go to some new places this winter, it seems like Helsinki is getting played out (even though some people still keep finding new spots there). We started off our season in Emetten, Switzerland to shred pow but the conditions were really bad so we ended up hitting a few spots in the village. That town actually has a lot of good street spots! After that, around New Year's Eve, we took the whole crew to Innsbruck to ring in the new year and try to film some spots. It wasn't the most productive trip but it was a lot of fun.

For January we had a lot of wild plans, but before we got to execute any of them it started dumping super hard in Holland. We got the most snow we've ever seen in our lives! That was amazing because we are never able to hit anything in Holland, so we still remembered all those spots we found when going to school as kids that we never got to hit. Every day we were having discussions about where to film because everybody wanted to go to a different spot. We ended up filming in Holland for about 3 weeks. We usually only have snow for like a day.
After that we went on the Vans team trip to Lithuania, which you can read all about in the new Method Mag 14.2 coming out at the end of this month. No other crew had ever been there and Vytautas from Stop Spot showed us a guidebook he had filled out with spots that we'd never seen before. It wasn't a hard decision to make the call to go!

On our way back from Lithuania to Holland we drove through Poland and it was dumping super hard there so we called around and decided to go back there after one day at home. We ended up in Wojtek's hometown of Szscyrk, it's a super fun, small resort with cheap restaurants and amazing honey-vodka shots so we didn't do a lot of snowboarding but it was definitely one of the best trips of the winter.

By that time the snow started melting a bit so there was pretty much only one place to go: Helsinki. Rachida, Kas and I went up there for a week, and after that we still hadn't had enough so Wessel, Kas and I went even further north to Jyväskylä for some spring urban riding.

We ended the season shredding Laax and going to Alex Tank's Jib Factory.
Tell us about the jail experience in the new Periscoping movie?
Haha, it was kind of sketchy. We were in Vilnius and hit up this down rail spot in the middle of 5 huge apartment blocks. We started digging out the stairs, built a jump, set up the drop-in ramp, etc. It was nighttime so we had to run the generator for the lights, when we realized we were kind of getting some angry reactions from the people who lived there blasting a generator in the middle of all these buildings, so we built an igloo for it to minimize the sound.

Meanwhile in one of the apartments some people were throwing a party or something and making a lot of noise, while we were trying to be stealthy as fuck. After like 3 tries the police came by and told us they had gotten a noise complaint and that we had to leave. This stuff happens regularly, and since the police in Lithuania are not to be fucked with, we decided to not put up a fight and just clean everything up again and leave. We asked them if it was okay if we left the jump and run in so we would could hit the rail the next day and they were okay with that, pretty chill.

They left, we started to break everything down, putting the lights back in G's truck, etc. Before we were done though, the police came back: "We have good news and bad news... The bad news is: we have to take you to the station; the good news is: there will be coffee". We never got the coffee, but at least this officer was trying to be nice. We had to follow them to the station. You hear these crazy stories about corrupt cops in the East so we kinda got nervous when we followed them onto a dirt road and drove past some bushes. The idea of getting robbed of our shit definitely crossed my mind. Behind the bushes this sketchy-looking building loomed up, which apparently was the police station.
Inside we got handed over to a different cop, this guy didn't speak English and had no idea why we were arrested, so he pretty much treated us like any other criminal. We got pushed into this cell that looked like something you only see in movies: rusty bars, concrete walls where the paint peeled off and with holes in 'em, and nothing but a hole in the ground to shit in.

At first it was kind of funny but after a few hours it got sketchy because we had no idea what was going on or how long this was gonna take. A few hours later this translator guy came so finally the hearing could start. Usually this would happen in an office behind a computer or something but over there they set up a desk in a staircase and the cop had to write everything down by hand. We had to go in there one by one, but I think the cop realized pretty soon that he didn't have anything on us so we were free to go.

The next day we went back to the same spot and got about 7 shots.

Why is Will Smith in the movie?
We set up this trip with Vans to Lithuania and we wanted to involve some more riders besides just the Dutch guys, and since there aren't a lot of Vans guys that ride street really well like Will does, the choice was easy. Most of us didn't know what to expect because we didn't know Will that well before the trip but we all got along super well and after 2 hours it felt like he had been part of the crew forever. That's why I decided to give him a full part in the movie.

Wessel is an official wizard. Where does he get his powers?
I heard he went cave diving while he was in the States and found a glowing meteor, when he touched it the thing started to leak some weird magenta-looking fluids and when he drank that he felt his life change.

Is Kas completely ambidextrous?
What does ambidextrous mean?

If I was a talent scout I'd "buy" Max and Kas for cheap now and train them in a Russian boot camp and sell them to the Americans for mad loot. Did you have any similar plans for these kids?
The plan is already being executed but the boot camp is not Russian, it's Dutch and it's called Montana Snowcenter, one of our indoor slopes. Boot camp time is coming to an end though, so those rich Americans should start making some offers while their teeth are still healthy!

Do you guys make sure Max does his homework? What does he do when you go out to the bars?
When I was in high school I could barely remember to do my own homework, let alone reminding Max to do his. I think he worked out a pretty good deal with his school and he's a good kid that knows that if he works hard in school, he can snowboard more.

In bars it's the same: he's just a perfect kid to have along, you don't have to worry about him for a second. Sometimes he drinks a beer but only because he likes it. One time we were in a restaurant and without saying anything he walked up to the bar and ordered an alcohol-free beer. He kinda rages on the dance floor anyway, which is funny, gonna be dope to have him around at our premieres!

What does it mean to you to have won the best AM movie award at The Reels? What are your ambitions from now on?
Winning the award came as a total surprise and me and the whole crew couldn't be happier about it. Keep in mind that we have been filming for 3 years now and in that time we never really met anyone who was able to seriously critique us. Winning the award has made us believe that what we're doing is actually kind of good, and that people dig what we're doing. Finding that out after being in the dark for 3 years felt amazing. But what might have meant even more to me was when the jury, dudes like David Benedek and Eddie Wall, came looking for us to tell how much they enjoyed it, and the shout out that Nike gave us while they were presenting their own movie. Besides that a lot of people that have inspired us in the past came over after the screening to ask where they could buy a DVD, which is crazy because I never thought that people would be interested in buying our movies. It's all very motivating.

Do you think you could melt that award down thing and make grills or jewelery for the whole crew?
I'd rather use it as a hood ornament on my car. I've got this 14-year old Opel Corsa, pretty sure it'd look dope.

Do you believe in a lot of filters, transitions and post-production?
Haha, are you hating now? It's not like I'm adding special effects like flying saucers and shit like that.
When I edit I usually finish a basic time line of tricks and lifestyle really fast. When that's finished I keep changing minor things most people would probably never even notice, but it's just to give myself a better feeling about it. This process never stops so those all those minor changes turn into those transitions, etc. Kind of hard to explain, hope it makes sense. I don't do any of those post-production things in After Effects if that's what you mean, everything is done in Final Cut Pro.

Tell us how you made your title lettering in the intro segment?
For the titles I got an underwater housing for my camera and spent a day in a lake near my house. Almost all the titles I've ever made have been done by hand, I just feel that a computer can't recreate those things. The imperfections are what I like about the titles, for example the titles in Periscoping, I couldn't keep the camera straight because of the waves. And sometimes sand would float up which would kind of fuck the shot up but for some reason those were the ones I liked the most.

How many visits to the hospital did the intro entail?
Not even  one really, most of those crashes were more sketchy than they were painful.

If you could choose a random additional rider to film a part for your next movie, who would it be? (Scott Stevens is on my imaginary team already, sorry.)
That's a hard one because we have no idea yet how next winter is going to look, and it seems we're gonna make some major changes in the rider lineup. Eirik Nesse is one of my favorite Euro riders though and it seems like we'll be able to do a few trips together. That's it, you won't get any more out of me!
Who pays your bills, parking tickets and new lenses?
My grandma hooked me up with a new lens for my birthday which was suuuuper rad! Bedankt Omie Nel!
My parents are also a huge support, so thanks go out to them as well. Parking tickets unfortunately are on me, but often they're cheaper than paying for a parking spot anyway. The rest of the movie was funded by Monster Energy, Bataleon, BigAirBag, GoPro, GVconstructions, Holden, Sabre, The Los Angeles River and Vans.

Where are the upcoming premieres?
18 October: Munich, Rausch&Töchter: https://www.facebook.com/events/575596352501090/?ref=5
26 October: Innsbruck, Weekender: https://www.facebook.com/events/217021095129882/?ref=5
31 October: Zurich