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Is this the most beau­ti­ful GoPro acci­dent ever caught on camera?

25 Feb 2016

New lyri­cal short surf film Rhymes With Shove pairs under­wa­ter footage from the Mal­dives with a stir­ring poem about lost love.

Surf­ing clichés are abun­dant in pop­u­lar cul­ture. Ever since waverid­ing was pop­u­larised in the 60s and 70s it’s been used to sell an aspi­ra­tional beach lifestyle and too often some of those hack­neyed tropes have seeped into its cin­e­mat­ic out­put – from corny End­less Sum­mer surf jour­ney sto­ries to repet­i­tive surf action montages.

That’s why a new film, Rhymes With Shove, fea­tur­ing for­mer pro surfer, writer and film­mak­er Jamie Brisick, is so refresh­ing and mov­ing. The con­cep­tu­al short, shot in the Mal­dives, cap­tures Brisick’s return to the surf after a per­son­al tragedy and is more about the space that surf­ing cre­ates in our minds, than the image of it over­ex­posed to our eyes.

The footage from an ill-fat­ed GoPro ses­sion – where the cam­era becomes dis­lo­cat­ed from Brisick’s board and is churned by the ocean – pro­vides a stun­ning space for reflec­tion, allow­ing ideas on remem­brance, for­get­ting, under­stand­ing and tran­scen­dence to float to the sur­face. Watch the video below and share your thoughts with us @LWLies

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Direct­ed by Jamie Brisick and Isabel Freeman.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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