Crystal Voyager

19731973
1h 18min

A loose biography of surfer and documentarist George Greenough, one of the most famous and unique members of the surfing subculture.

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George Greenough

Selfas Self

Ritchie West

Selfas Self

Nat Young

Selfas Self

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A loose biography of surfer and documentarist George Greenough, one of the most famous and unique members of the surfing subculture.

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Taglines
- A totally unique film experience! [Theatrical]
Genres
- Documentary
- Sport
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.

Quotes
George Greenough: You might be in there for only a few seconds---in real time---but in your head it goes on for hours. It is an experience that's hard to describe, riding inside of a big, grinding wave. Often you're riding so deep inside the tube, you don't make it out. You take a terrible wipe out. What matters is when you're in there, it's the time interval when you're inside the wave. Time enters space, a zone of its own. The only reality is what's happening right then.

Connections
Featured in Gliding with George (2002)

Soundtracks
Echoes
Written by Pink Floyd
Performed by Pink Floyd
Courtesy of Harvest Records

Top review

6/10

Crystal Voyager

I found this documentary on surfing a interesting approach within comparison to Pointbreak which highlights surfing with drugs and guns, PointBreak although full of action it has not made a great positive impression on the surfing movement like Big Wednesday and Endless Summer obviously have.

Crystal Voyager seems to be on a calm relaxing approach with the back ground sounds of Pink Floyd as stated in previous comments although a few more tracks would have been a bonus.

Die-hard Surfers out there would find that this as an interesting reference documentary along side Riding-Giants and documentaries like Strapped showing that there are many different ways of riding a board, shaping a board and getting influences from different directions other that the obvious of fashion.

Crystal Voyager is not a fast moving documentary sometimes like the oceans fluidity. And yes I would like to meet George Greenough for compliments on his surfing ability!

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