YI-WO WATCH NOW!
Yi-Wo: “A study in timeless surfing and style of the highest order…” Surfer Magazine
It was an pleasure to host the UK Premiere screening tour of Thomas Campbell’s much anticipated Yi-Wo.
If you missed our exclusive tour, or if you just need a second bite of this mind expanding, soul enhancing pie, you’re in luck. This must-see movie is streaming via Thomas’s Vimeo from Friday 17th October. Full details HERE
Go feast your eyes and soul in the knowledge that in doing so you’re supporting independent film and independent art.
Highly influential visual artist and filmmaker Thomas Campbell’s seminal surf films ‘The Seedling’, ‘Sprout’ and ‘The Present’ catalyzed a paradigm shift in the culture that redefined the very art of waveriding and the boundaries of surf cinema. Ten years in the making his latest audio visual masterpiece is set to do the same again.
“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