LS/FF Presents: SURFILMUSIC at The Lighthouse Cinema

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LS/FF Presents: SURFILMUSIC
The highly anticipated Jack Johnson documentary comes to Cornwall

Friday June 19th London Surf / Film Festival presents a very special screening of the highly anticipated,  SURFILMUSIC at The Lighthouse Cinema, Newquay. A lifetime in the making, this must-see documentary is an intimate insight into Jack Johnson’s evolution from rising North Shore surf star, to iconic surf filmmaker to world-renowned musician  - you don’t want to mis this. See HERE for full line up.

Before Jack Johnson was a stadium-filling, platinum-selling musician, he was a surfer. At 17, just a month after Jack Johnson made the trials of Hawaii’s prestigious Pipeline Pro, a serious surf injury at the legendary North Shore reef – resulting in some 150 stitches and knocking out his front teeth – rewrote Johnson’s script and ended his competitive surfing career.

His next step, making surf films with close friends - like the hugely influential Thicker than Water and September Sessions which featured some of the era’s very best surfers like Kelly Slater and Rob Machado – became the bedrock for a broad creative life.  Moments captured in and out of the water on his trusty Bolex, later surfaced in his songwriting. 

‘When I think about making things – music or film –friendship is the most important part.’

Jack Johnson

Bringing together rare footage from these formative surf films along with personal and family archives, accompanied by present-day reflections, the film explores how lived experience, friendship, and exploration shaped the sound and stories behind the music. Directed by long-time friend and collaborator, award-winning filmmaker Emmet Malloy he recalls, “Jack and I became friends as college was ending and the real world was calling.  We loved making films and finding good tunes to place in them. Jack was a beautiful cinematographer, and I had big aspirations for him — until I heard his music. He played me a cassette tape of his 4-track recordings, and it felt like some familiar album from my new favorite artist that I didn’t even know I had yet.”

Featuring Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Gerry Lopez, Chris Malloy, G. Love, Ben Harper, John Florence and more this is joyous ode to a surf-enriched life and an education in the art of freedom, friendship and fuelling the creative spirit. 

London Surf / Film Festival is bringing SURFILMUSIC to Newquay’s Lighthouse Cinema as part of a very special screening tour in association with Carve and Surfgirl Magazine. 

Full details and tickets here: https://londonsurffilmfestival.com/surfilmmusic-jack-johnson-uk-tour/