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Cape Town 2010
Summer Loving, Having Some Fun
The best surf films from around the world will be presented to audiences in Cape Town from 9 to 19 December, 2010. A big screen movie will be shown on Clifton Fourth Beach on Friday 10 December, a stunning night out under the stars to watch a family-orientated surf film (Scratching the Surface). Tickets at the Labia Cinema and Brass Bell cost R30. Call our infoline on 079 0260 669 (goes live on 12 November). Full schedule out soon. Watch this space. Big up to our fantastic curator in California Keiko Beatie!
 Australia, Indonesia, 2010, Video, 88 min
Director: Michael Oblowitz
Cast: Mike Boyum, Martin Daly, Peter McCabe, and Jeff Chitty
No Under 16
Drug peddling, addiction, and ruination seep through the grainy 16mm archives as you dig deep into the early stirrings of the surf travel dream. You’ll jolt awake in a cold sweat as the two kilos of condomised China White squirm in your belly. At times macabre, this historically fascinating doccie follows Indies Trader owner Martin Daly and others as they bankroll the early exploration of Indo as drug smugglers. Some died. Others survived. The footage of two ous on one Uluwatu wave trading barrels is hoot-worthy.
Show time: 20h30 Friday 17 December, Labia Cinema
 Hawaii, 2010, HD Video, Stills, 48 min
Director: Derek Hoffmann, Craig Hoffmann
Cast: Mark Healey, Ian Walsh, Dave Nelson, Ted Grambeau and many others
The inside story of surf photography. As pro surfer Mark Healey says, “Next time somebody asks me what I do for a living I'll just have them watch this movie.” True to the sharp lens and camera technology of the digital age, this vivid doccie transports you through the eyes of the world’s best surf photographers, including our Pierre Tostee, to focus on the North Shore. Five awards this year and counting. Inspiring, sumptious, and insanely rich in visuals.
21h00 Sunday 12 December, Brass Bell (with Modern Collective)
21h00 Wednesday 15 December, Brass Bell (with Scratching the Surface)
18h15 Saturday 18 December, Labia Cinema (with Idiosyncrasies)
 Tahiti, Greenland, England, 2009, Video, 79 min
Director: Ross Cairns
Cast: Tom Lowe, Fergal Smith, Mickey Smith, Xavier De Le Rue, The Gallows
No Under 16
Award-winning doccie about a freakish French snowboarder, big-balled Irish surfers and an angry British punk band seeking the summit of their skill. From wide-eyed rides in giant Chopes, terrifying slides down virgin chutes in Greenland or tattooed head-banging mayhem, they share the desire to find the salt-encrusted, powder-snowed, guitar-ghettoed grail of their inner artist. Not for the squeamish. No Under 16.
18h15 Thursday 16 December, Labia Cinema
 USA, 2009, Video, 57 min
Director: Kai Neville
Cast: Jordy Smith, Dion Agius, Dusty Payne, Dane Reynolds, Mitch Coleburn and Yadin Nicol
Mind bending and air blowing, this action paced film is fast and frenetic, with an engaging emo-rock soundtrack. Evolution at its scariest! A collective of young rippers push the limits - Jordy Smith, Dion Aguis, Dusty Payne, Dane Reynolds, Mitch Coleburn and Yadin Nicol. It is the kind of movie that will leave the ballies shaking their heads in dismay and the groms and shredders dreaming incessantly of punting huge air reverses. Mad rad dad.
21h00 Sunday 12 December, Brass Bell (with Fibreglass & Megapixels)
18h15 Friday 17 December, Labia Cinema (with Who is JOB?)
20h30 Saturday 18 December, Labia Cinema (with Melali: The Drifter Sessions)
 New York, Hawaii, Tahiti, Indonesia, 2010, 72 min
Director: Alex DePhillipo
Cast: Dean Randazzo, Sam Hammer, Andrew Gesler, Zach Humphries, Clay Pollioni, Andy Irons, Kelly Slater
Shot in HD, watch New Jersey surfers brave snow and extreme temperatures to ride the waves of the Jersey shore. And more besides. The Fall, Autumn in the States, provides a delicious existential twist, with a couple of gravity based puns thrown in ... takeoff and fall, the archangel’s fall from heaven? Alex DePhillipo's documentary has scooped top accolades in the States this year. He follows a year in the life of New Jersey's best surfers as they tackle some of the best surf in their own back yard, including last year’s Hurricane Bill, and travel to epic locations. Great music by The Parlor Mob, ASG, Jumpship, Chris Arena, Sabotoge Soundsytem, Bruce Springsteen and more.
18h15 Sunday 19 December, Labia Cinema (with Gum For My Boat)
 Australia, Hawaii, Indo, SA 2010 Video, 55min
Director: Matt Beauchesne
Cast: Julian Wilson
Julian Wilson goes to Indo with Dusty Payne, Dane Reynolds, and Taj Burrow, a "good crew". And with continued understatement, we gorge on modern surf porn sublime, a hour's overdose of pure, intravaneous surf stoke that will leave you twitching uncontrollably, bloodshot eyes quivering with synaptic overflow. Shot entirely in HD, with the dope Phantom Cam in Hawaii, Indo, South Africa and West Oz, this is new age surfing and filmmaking fused at the lip. They say the overhead helicopter shot 17 minutes into the film is the best surf clip ever. You decide. Brain Farm Cinema brings pioneering surf filmmaking from copter cams to housing heaven. Seeing is believing.
21h00 Big screen Clifton 4th Beach Friday 10 December 2010
21h00 Wednesday 15 December, Brass Bell (with Fibreglass & Megapixels)
20h30 Sunday 19 December, Labia Cinema (with My Eyes Won't Dry 3)
 Australia, Micronesia, Hawaii, El Salvador, Mexico, Indonesia, 2010, 55min
Director: Jamie O’Brien
Cast: Jamie O’Brien and other mullets
Big ego, massive talent. Who is Jamie O'Brien? He starts off his film with a diatribe against the surf industry. He rips into surf politics. He burns the ASP rule book. Maverick, angry young man. If you follow him on Twitter, you’ll know it. But he’s riding his own wave. Admire his brutal assault on life. Do you dig sick slabs and pure adrenalin? Dig this film. Dik airs, giant backside hacks, and barrels big enough to blast out a Lloyds' shipping container. Three years of filming in Tahiti, Mexico, Indo and Hawaii. Kiff music score. Driving Miss Crazy. Mullet mayhem!
21h00 Monday 13 December, Brass Bell (with shorts)
18h15 Friday 17 December, Labia Cinema (with Modern Collective)
 USA, Hawaii Tahiti, Mexico, 2010, HD Video, 57 min
Director: Brian Conley
Cast: Brian Conley, pro and amateur tube riders
Not since the crystalline visions of George Greenough has any single filmmaker so elegantly notched up such tube riding footage. We almost kapped this film from the programme because we thought it would be a similar mind-numbing excursion into duplication and repetition to the point of catatonia. Well, you will ride plenty of sick, standup, wide open slabby barrels with Conley. You will be force-fed the sweet candy of his tubular addiction, but you will you suck it down like the elixir of life in a windswept summer drought. You’ll also enjoy some brilliant editing, insane music and plenty of epic outside-the-barrel shots. You’ll enjoy the angle from the outside of the guy with the camera getting barrelled before zooming into the tube for the alternate view of what you just saw. There are moments when you yell to the rafters with the stoke Conley must have felt getting so stupidly shacked off his shaggy blond pip. Includes the shot when he casually jumps off the jetski and virtually directly into the tube. A definite step along the evolutionary curve of surfing cinematography.
21h00 Tuesday 14 December, Brass Bell (with Melali: The Drifter Sessions)
20h30 Sunday 19 December, Labia Cinema (with Scratching the Surface)
 Indonesia, 2010, HD Video, 34 min
Director: Rob Machado
Cast: Rob Machado, Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater, Mike Lossness, Shane Dorian, and more
A backlit green screen. Sparkling, sun washed barrels glide before your rheumy wind-flushed eyes. Pigdog silouettes tease the edges of your consciousness while your mind wonders in rhythm to the original music score by Rob Machado and his muso mates. When he was in Indo shooting the Drifter, which imposed a script and a story upon the audience, they shot gigabytes of pure, distilled surfing in Indo’s metonymically perfect peelers. Their subjects? The most innovative tube riders the world has seen set to the kiff music of a multi-talented bunch of people. They took3 the best of the rest, and produced a tightly edited film. Care for more black fruit pastilles? Want more? Check the film.
21h00 Tuesday 14 December, Brass Bell (with My Eyes Won't Dry )
20h30 Saturday 18 December, Labia Cinema (with Modern Collective)
 Mexico, 2009, Video, 63 min
Director: Jonno Durrant & Stefan Hunt
Cast: Alan and Pam Skuse, the kids of Mission Mexico
This inspiring story about abused and lost street kids in Mexico will have you wiping a tear from your eye. Deeply moving doccie set in Tapachula, Mexico, which recounts the story of Mision Mexico, a place of sanctuary set up by Pam and Alan Skuse for 45 children. The Australian couple volunteered to the refuge in 2001, and they never left. Through the suffering endured by these kids, a rousing sense of hope and fulfillment brings redemption for a unique surfing community in Tapachula, a coastal city where they are the only surfers. Damaged. Hurt. Filled with hope. The power to change. Viva.
Special Ticket To Ride Foundation evening
20h30 Thursday 9 December Labia Cinema (with Surfing Favela)
 Planet Earth, 2010, HD Video, 89 min
Director: Rupert Murray
Narrator: Ted Danson
Based on the book by Charles Clover
What can be said about this film that hasn’t been said before? Well, the naysayers armed with stats and more stats attempt to shoot down the premise of this film, that fish are going to be extinct within the next 40-50 years. While the grubby humans and agenda-bloated scientists squabble like hyenas over the carcass, the unadulterated rape of the oceans continues. Massive factory ships dredge the oceans for every last morsel. This is a must see. Every little bit counts. This is the start of that journey. Just do it.
Special evening hosted by Wavescape and Pick 'n Pay
18h15 Monday 20 December, Labia Cinema (with Panel Discussion)
 Brazil, 2009, Video, 44min
Director: Natalia Bacalini, Max Ezzaoui
Cast: Carlos Belo Da Silva, Pablo Paulinho and José Ricardo Ramos
Shot in Cantagalo and Rocinha, two impoverished areas of Rio de Janiero, this documentary opens you to lank stuff. Rocinha – population 250,000 - is the biggest slum (Favela) in Rio. Instead of evangalising and lecturing, the film sensitively portrays the small things by a group of surfers who bodily pull the youth of their community from a dark-scoured underworld of degradation and hopelessness. Surfing: the foaming bridge to freedom of spirit.
Wavescape Ticket to Ride Foundation evening
20h30 Thursday 9 December, Labia Cinema (with Somewhere in Tapachula)
 New Zealand, Bali, Hawaii, Australia, 2010, 100min
Director: Clive Neeson
Cast: Kevin Jarrett, John Neeson, AJ Hackett, Bob McTavish, Nat Young, George Greenough, Allan Byrne
A 45-year history of extreme sport in pristine locations. Follow fringe Kiwi mavericks, with Micky Dora and George Greenough, in a fascinating exploration of early technologies that harnessed gravity. A superb mix of 8 and 16mm footage rendered into rich digital life by Clive Neeson is a precious collection of stories thick with the theme of how critical it is that we preserve what remains of the paradise they played in. Sheep farmers and Vietnam war droputs relied on invention (the mother of necessity) from flesh-eating leg ropes at Raglan to the jet boat that became the jet ski; from sliding across mud to the skim board; from scurfing behind boats to the wakeboard, and of course, bungee jumping. You name it, they helped start it. Epic old footage of skiing live volcanoes, and early forays to gardens of Eden in Hawaii, Bali and New Zaylund. “As the ocean dances, the mind slides,” sings someone. Other songs by Cat Stevens. Shew wah!
20h30 Thursday 16 December, Labia Cinema (with shorts)
 USA, 2010, 64 min
Director: Patrick Trefz
Cast: Richard Kenvin, Andrew Kidman, Lance Ebert, Christian Beamish, Tom & Pat Curren
Warning. Normal people surfing makes you feel normal. So yield. To the love. Do some ying! Don’t be a yang cur. Unreal reeling alaia riding? “Most of us are not competing with the best surfers in the world. We can ride whatever we want.” Real people. A bit whack, but real. Andrew Kidman, filmmaker, writer, shaper, and others. The jasmine alley opens to a wavescape of a T-Rex album cover. Come in and take some licks. Listen to wise man of the sea Harbour Bill Mulcoy, who illegally surfs in Santa Cruz, then outruns the cops. He flips the bird to a magazine writer (Surfer) who blew his cover. Epic stories, ordinary people. This crafted film by the masterful Trefz explores the artistry in a normal world, making it profound. Feast your Rick Griffin orb on deep, lush barrels, big waves, small waves, and cool peeps doing kiff things. "A graceful portrayal of unique minds." None of that other bull crap here.
18h15 Saturday 18 December, Labia Cinema (with Fibreglass Megapixels)
 Bangladesh, 2009, Video, 32 min
Director: Russel Brownley
Cast: Kahana Kalana, Jafar Alam, Tom Bauer, stoked groms
Meet Jafar, Bangladesh’s first surfer. A travelling Ozzie sold him a surfboard for 20 bucks in 1991, and he made history that has grown into a story about 70 stoked groms, Bangladesh’s first surf club, and how surfing flourished in unlikely places. Narrated by hip, cool Kahana Kalana, a pro-surfer, this film sweeps you through the gritty streets and into the briny sea, where stoke abounds from street urchin to NGO volunteer. Feel good in the real world bru.
18h15 Sunday 19 December, Labia Cinema (with Dark Fall)
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