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Surfing legend Bob McTavish beside an FJ Holden at Noosa. Picture: John Witzig Source: Supplied |
SURF films as art? They are triply -- and trippily -- so. Or at least they used to be.
In their heyday, the late 1960s and early 70s, they treated cinematography, music and the surfing action as three equal components that could be blended into a powerful representation of counterculture freedom.
And if you struggled to get a grip on the seemingly loose editing or cutaways of fit young people grinning and running in slow-motion through idyllic settings, then maybe you should have stopped on the way into the theatre and had a puff of that smelly cigarette the longhairs were smoking in the car park.
Paul Witzig has just re-released his three definitive movies of the era -- Hot Generation, Evolution and Sea of Joy -- after extensive digital restoration.
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