Tuesday 19 June 2011
This fascinating left-of-field film took Taki Bibelas five years to make. It won Best Surf Film at the Byron Bay International Film Festival. A compelling, soulful exploration of the emotional fragility of the human spirit, and the link it has to the ocean.
THE STILL POINT
Hawaii, California, Mexico, 8, 16mm, video, 2011, 61 min
Director: Taki Bibelas
Cast: Miki Dora, Tom Morey, Mark Cunningham, Mike Doyle, George Downing, Skip Frye, Ricky Grigg, Joey Cabell and Brian Keaulana
http://indytrailers.com/video/3d641eb3f0b1c44/The-Still-Point
This fascinating left-of-field film took Bibelas five years to make. It won Best Surf Film at the Byron Bay International Film Festival. A compelling, soulful exploration of the emotional fragility of the human spirit, and the link it has to the ocean. Inspired by a TS Eliot poem called Four Quartets, Bibelas, a top photographer for Vogue and other leading magazines, tackles a project about his friend Miki Dora, and ended up creating a film that goes beyond surfing. In his words: “It lead me to setting up the film the way it is — like a poem, a film about everything and nothing, a film about water, the ocean and life as seen though the eyes of some very insightful surfing personalities. There is very little surfing in the film, but we really feel it.”
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