'A Lunar Cycle': Easkey Britton in the ocean
I remember a time when I rolled my eyes at the idea of new surf films as they arrived on the scene. For so long, surf films told the same story over and over and over and over, and over and over and over. I stopped watching them. But that changed, and I had to start to eat my cynicism. Surf films got diverse. They got interesting. Part of this is the acceptance of new people as surfing's storytellers; letting surfing be more than men, more than sunshine, more than grunting descriptions of getting barrelled and feeling stoked, more than roadtrips, more than power turns, late drop ins and airs. New stories about surfing that suggested surfing was more than the worst of it. Well hello there, A Lunar Cycle . You might have heard about the latest offering in this new world of surf films, that was directed by Andrew Kaineder, and written by and featuring Irish surfer, Easkey Britton . If you haven't heard of Easkey, then you haven't been paying much attention to surfi...