Tag Archive for ‘vid’
Riding Waves
Cyrus Sutton found inspiration for his debut film in his backyard. As a kid surfing at Seal Beach and growing up in Long Beach, California, he looked up to surfers like Rob Machado and Joel Tudor. So when he went to make his first film (at the precocious age of 19), he recruited local heroes [...]
Second to None
“The best surfers on the planet, surfing the best waves on the planet,” is how the DVD Second to None bills itself. That terse description is not only accurate, but emblematic of the aesthetic of Second to None. There’s almost no dialog, no explanations, no interviews and spotty identification of the surfers and waves they’re [...]
Today Is The Day
Someone identified as “imageposse” put together this beautiful surfing video scored with Yo La Tengo’s ‘Today Is The Day’. That’s all I know about it. Well, that, and they scored some really sweet waves in Baja. See the vid below.
Shrink
In a suitably Canadian fashion, Shrink is low-key about some pretty heavy surf. This short video is little more than promotion piece for Sepp and Raph Bruhwiler, but it is also a beautiful document about surfing Canada’s wild west, Vancouver Island. From the first scene — a water shot taken during a driving sleet storm [...]
Meador Back From Yonder to Surf Rock
Dear & Yonder, a surf movie by Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessler, has been touring the US this summer. We missed the show in Brooklyn at the end of July, but there’ve been a couple Kassia Meador sightings at Rockaway lately. Meador, along with Lisa Andersen, Sofia Mulanovich, Sally Fitzgibbons, Belinda Baggs, Linda Benson, Rell [...]
Women Who Surf
A few years back, filmmaker Peck Euwer profiled Heather Hudson, a Santa Barbara surfer and mom, in his surf documentary, The Craving. The 2005 film featured five surfers of different ages and backgrounds talking about their common addiction — the craving for waves. Later, while surfing on a rare uncrowded day, Hudson paddled over to [...]