bvd sfr we will judge u!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Christian Fletcher and the Judges
While the June 25th deadline has passed amazing new films continue to arrive in various states of completion. Deadlines could be rolling....Mahalo for everyone's submissions of stoke. We've been geeking out on new levels. As if the features (hush hush at this point) weren't off the chain, the shorts are destined to blow minds. Lookout for some seriously hype work from Toddy Stewart, Charlie Smith, Matt Wesson, the Campbell Brothers, Andrew Kidman and Mr. Runman! The comedic shorts will soak seats, fuhgitaboutit...stoke levels are maxing into overdrive!
bvd sfr we will judge u!
bvd sfr we will judge u!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Musica Surfica at NYSFF
We're frothing with Musica Surfica stoke! Look for it's first American screening at the festival. Here's a little synopsis Mr. Mick Sowry sent...
Musica Surfica explores a collision between classical music and experimental surfing. Violin virtuoso and surfer Richard Tognetti, of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, with his friend, surfing provocateur Derek Hynd, asked a diverse group of surfers, including former world champion Tom Carroll and master shaper Tom Wegener, to join them on remote King Island at the edge of the Southern Ocean, to surf... without fins. Some of the boards were ancient Hawaiian designs, while others were modern, often successful attempts to design a finless board.
While there the surfer members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, along with folk musicians Mike Kerin and Danny Spooner, performed for the locals and this music, of Bach, Pagannini and others, forms the soundtrack to this very unusual film. Worth noting too is that Richard plays on the Guarneri del Gesu "Carrodus" violin, worth over $10,000,000 Australian dollars, and one of the finest instruments in existence. To see it being played to a bunch of surfers and a couple of locals in an old abandoned dairy is a unique sight indeed.
The combined result is a film that looks at the art of surfing in new ways, reminding us of the rewards of risk in learning new things, and reminding us too of why we surf. For fun.
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Fin du surf....Rumor has it that longtime Billabong film-maker Jack McCoy is working on a finless project with Derek Hynd, the Marshall Brothers and other students of surf...sir fins.
Musica Surfica explores a collision between classical music and experimental surfing. Violin virtuoso and surfer Richard Tognetti, of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, with his friend, surfing provocateur Derek Hynd, asked a diverse group of surfers, including former world champion Tom Carroll and master shaper Tom Wegener, to join them on remote King Island at the edge of the Southern Ocean, to surf... without fins. Some of the boards were ancient Hawaiian designs, while others were modern, often successful attempts to design a finless board.
While there the surfer members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, along with folk musicians Mike Kerin and Danny Spooner, performed for the locals and this music, of Bach, Pagannini and others, forms the soundtrack to this very unusual film. Worth noting too is that Richard plays on the Guarneri del Gesu "Carrodus" violin, worth over $10,000,000 Australian dollars, and one of the finest instruments in existence. To see it being played to a bunch of surfers and a couple of locals in an old abandoned dairy is a unique sight indeed.
The combined result is a film that looks at the art of surfing in new ways, reminding us of the rewards of risk in learning new things, and reminding us too of why we surf. For fun.
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Fin du surf....Rumor has it that longtime Billabong film-maker Jack McCoy is working on a finless project with Derek Hynd, the Marshall Brothers and other students of surf...sir fins.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
the films of RUNMAN
Parlaying rad collage, briccolage and combine, like an outdoor Merzbau but with more dog shit and doggie-style. Logs, single fins, twinnies, thrusters and punk before it was cool. Mental in the shorey!!!! A 7 minute short on wunderstud Bruce Irons has been submitted by RUNMAN and is destined to become a crowd favorite. Stay chuned EXES!!!
from the Runman site...
Runman was conceived in Malibu in the early 80's as an surf accessories company by Morgan Runyon and Ray Kleiman, (hence Runman). We have returned to do what we do.... Create visual art. Best known for the cult surf movies Runman One, Two and 69: we proudly present our new film, Runmental.Black balled by conservative surf shops during the Raygun years, Runman is now pissed to have reemerged with the help of the enter net to spread our images. Through our movies and limited products, we hope to make a semi dis honest buck.Our mottos...Be a pal, buy now.Fart for the visual arts.Be committed to doing what we want. Once we were described as, "The pimple on the ass of progress."Well... Its better to be the pimple than the ass.
Cheer's drink beer,
Runman
from the Runman site...
Runman was conceived in Malibu in the early 80's as an surf accessories company by Morgan Runyon and Ray Kleiman, (hence Runman). We have returned to do what we do.... Create visual art. Best known for the cult surf movies Runman One, Two and 69: we proudly present our new film, Runmental.Black balled by conservative surf shops during the Raygun years, Runman is now pissed to have reemerged with the help of the enter net to spread our images. Through our movies and limited products, we hope to make a semi dis honest buck.Our mottos...Be a pal, buy now.Fart for the visual arts.Be committed to doing what we want. Once we were described as, "The pimple on the ass of progress."Well... Its better to be the pimple than the ass.
Cheer's drink beer,
Runman
Friday, May 2, 2008
Musica Surfica (2007)
Mick Sowry's Musica Surfica takes a look at the nature of musical performance and finless surfing, likening the removal of fins to that of structure in an improvised expression of joy. A refreshing look at surfing and what it means to break from habit, whether in the ocean or on land, and recapture the freedom of wiping out.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Dolphin Glide
Shot on 35mm, George Greenough's latest film Dolphin Glide...
Stay tuned for the DVD release of 'Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun' in co-ordination with Chris Darling of the Surf Video Network. There's talk of a NY screening in late April...
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun (1968)
George Greenough's brilliant in-the-tube water sequences featured in Big Wednesday were honed during the making of his first film the Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun. Soundtrack by the Farm featuring Apocalypse co-writer Denny Aaberg on guitar.
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