Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

(Dan Merkel foto)

Original surf film maker Bud Browne to be honored at the New York Surf Film Festival. Mr. Browne (1912-2008) was the first to make commerical surf films, his 1953 debut Hawaiian Surfing Movie featured footage of a trip taken to Hawaii mixed with surfing shot in California. Born outside of Boston he learned to surf in Venice Beach where he later became an LA County lifeguard and one of the world’s best bodysurfers. His camera work was included in such surf classics as Five Summer Stories and Big Wednesday.

Archival material provided by Ira Opper to be screened opening night!

Films by Bud Browne:

Hawaiian Surfing Movie (1953)
Hawaiian Holiday (1954)
Hawaiian Surf Movie (1955)
Trek to Makaha (1956)
The Big Surf (1957)
Surf Down Under (1958)
Cat on a Hot Foam Board (1959)
Surf Happy (1960)
Spinning Boards (1961)
Cavalcade of Surf (1962)
Gun Ho! (1963)
Locked In! (1964)
You’ll Dance in Tahiti (1967)
Goin’ Surfin’ (1971)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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!

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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.

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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 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

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