The Still Point

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

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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.”