This film depicts, in a languorous mood, the special connection surfers and other performance artists have with nature. The overall feel of the movie is mellow and mesmerizing, with long shots of wafer-thin wave faces and hypnotic tube rides. An absolute blast, this is for everyone who has ever ridden a wave or simply wished they had.
Morning of the Earth
1972
Action / Documentary / Reality-TV
Morning of the Earth
1972
Action / Documentary / Reality-TV
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visual/tone poem to the surfer lifestyle
An Absolute Must-See Classic
Transcends its genre. Shot on gorgeous 16mm film, this is a one-of-a-kind meditation on the beauty of the earth through the lens of surfing. Looking back from 2010 with the industry's obsession with sponsorships, competitions and tricks, this film now seems a powerful echo from a different era. All the corruptive layers fall away and the viewer is invited into the mesmerizing spectacle of humans balanced on the edge of powerful oceanic forces in between living simply in the woods and building their own surfboards. The soulful original soundtrack is the icing on the cake, and reinforces the notion of surfing as no mere sport, but rather an art, a dance, and an attitude towards life.
Brilliant Surf Movie
Wonderful pictures of surfers in Australia, Indonesia and Hawaii. The cuts are not very fast like the today most used MTV-style but slow. The feeling of this movie is really psychedelic. Some pictures showing the surfers outside the water, but not too much of it. Most of the movie shows surfin' and that's what we buy surf movies for. Best surf movie I have ever seen.