SPECIAL SCREENING: YI-WO
Yi-Wo: The Exclusive UK Tour rolling in for September
We’re delighted to be bringing these very special premiere screenings of Yi-Wo to Cornwall, London, Newcastle and Devon this September….your only opportunity to watch this highly anticipated surf film in the UK on the big screen, you’re not going to want to miss this!
Ten years in the making, Yi-Wo is the latest surf film from hugely influential visual artist and filmmaker Thomas Campbell whose seminal surf movies ‘The Seedling’, ‘Sprout’ and ‘The Present’ catalyzed a paradigm shift in the culture that redefined the very art of waveriding and surf cinema.
“A study in timeless surfing and style of the highest order…” Surfer Magazine
15th SEPTEMBER > THE POLY, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL
17th SEPTEMBER > RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON
17th SEPTEMBER > TYNESIDE CINEMA, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
18th SEPTEMBER > OUTSIDE, BANTHAM, DEVON
“YI-WO is a prayer, a habitual ritualistic gaze into the depths of the vast unknowable. YI-WO is a celebration of very purposely selected forms of the connective water sliding pursuits. It’s a poem, a place to be or not to be untangled. A space for your time, to possibly honour the practice, this existence and the paths potential dimensional expansive qualities.” Thomas Campbell
10 years in the making filmed across Fiji, Morocco, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Australia, Utah, Hawaii and California, Yi-Wo features surfers Ryan Burch, Alex Knost, Craig Anderson, Karina Rozunko, Joel Tudor, Nick Melanson, Lauren Hill, Dave Rastovich, Ozzie Wright, Jared Mell, Trevor Gordon and Bryce Young.
Shot predominantly on 16mm film by Thomas Campbell, Dave Homcy, Scott Soens, Chris Bryan and Tyge Landa among others.
Soundtrack by – Cone Cinq, Spacemen 3, Group Inerane, Tommy Guerrero (with Josh Lippi and Matt Rodriguez), Arthur Russell, Kassia Meador and Alex Knost, Duane Pitre, Ray Barbee (with John Herndon and Josh Lippi), Fuck Buttons.
“16 years since Campbell premiered his last surf movie, with his cast of avant-garde A-list stylists and mid-altering soundtrack Yi-Wo was worth the wait.” Surfer Magazine. Read the feature in full here
Yi-Wo: a habitual ritualistic gaze into the depths of the vast unknowable
Karina Rozunko, Cost Rica. YI-WO // Image: Grant Ellis
YI-WO is a prayer, a habitual ritualistic gaze into the depths of the vast unknowable. // Image: Grant Ellis