I’m putting a short clip from Jbrother’s movie Longer in two sections, here and in Cowabunga!/The Surfing Life. I do this because Longer is a great little surf movie, and a great little movie, period. I say “little’ only because of its length, about 30 minutes.

If you don’t surf and are not curious about it or about Longer, I’ll try this, from none other than Ethan Coen:

"Longer, a new American surf movie is the vision of a masterful new eye. The poignancy of de Sica's The Bicycle Thief echoes in his scoring of the opening segment with Getz/Gilberto's 'Desafinado….'
--A Cahiers du Cinema review

I deliberately chose a sequence with unspectacular waves being ridden, so as not to distract you from the grace and artistry of the collaboration of surfer and filmmaker by wowing you with nature herself.

This is about surfing, and surf filmmaking, as art. Give it a shot…

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