This year's London Surf Film Festival showcases the sport in all its extremes, from big waves and beach dudes to riders braving the Arctic winter – but where are the women surfers?
Surf films tend to fall into two camps: either pro riders surfing the world's biggest waves to a banging soundtrack – all rippling muscles and towering walls of aquamarine water, or whimsical journeys that look and feel more like music videos – focused less on skill and strength and more on the lifestyle with a heady, hippy vibe heavy on salty sexiness.
But the effect of both types of film is similar – and powerful: instant lifestyle envy. After watching some of the trailers for the London Surf Film Festival, I was wondering whether 41 was too old to become a surf bum – despite only ever sitting on a board once.
But there is more to the festival than exotic beaches and hot dudes in wetsuits.
Surf films tend to fall into two camps: either pro riders surfing the world's biggest waves to a banging soundtrack – all rippling muscles and towering walls of aquamarine water, or whimsical journeys that look and feel more like music videos – focused less on skill and strength and more on the lifestyle with a heady, hippy vibe heavy on salty sexiness.
But the effect of both types of film is similar – and powerful: instant lifestyle envy. After watching some of the trailers for the London Surf Film Festival, I was wondering whether 41 was too old to become a surf bum – despite only ever sitting on a board once.
But there is more to the festival than exotic beaches and hot dudes in wetsuits.
- 10/8/2012
- by Isabel Choat
- The Guardian - Film News
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