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DIVINO AMOR - trailer from Nitrato Filmes on Vimeo.

Brasil, 2027. Uma devota religiosa usa o seu ofício num cartório para tentar dificultar os divórcios. Enquanto espera por um sinal divino em reconhecimento aos seus esforços é confrontada com uma crise no seu casamento que acaba por deixá-la ainda mais perto de Deus.

History of Surfing, by Don Wolf (1965) from ENCYCLOPEDIA of SURFING on Vimeo.

David Bowie is The Man Who Fell to Earth • Documentary 2017 from Nacho's Productions on Vimeo.

David Bowie is The Man Who Fell to Earth • Documentary 2017

Nic Roeg: "'What a great documentary - so interesting".

Candy Clark: "Spectacular footage and commentary about the making of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Made me cry seeing David and listening to his pride about his work.. Learned a lot that I didn't know. He was brilliant..Just brilliant."

This is a film about a film - Nic Roeg's 1976 esoteric science fiction movie - The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg's film has beguiled and baffled audiences since it's release. It explores, often in abstraction and allegory, the themes of alienation, power, love, trust and betrayal.

David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth is an attempt to partly explain the movie. And it is a look at the way the film came together and at Roeg’s working methods, and at the creative process itself. And because it is a film about the creative process, it was felt that it should also in itself, try to also be creative.

It is quite widely known that Bowie and his music were greatly influenced by Roeg and the time he spent working on the film. And so David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth also tries to paint a small portrait of Bowie and his music during the era – from latter part of ’74 up to the January 1977 album, Low. Bowie also created music that was intended for the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell to Earth. Famously, it was never used and remains almost unheard to this day. However, parts of the unused music were later incorporated into his albums Station To Station and Low. And so, as part of the story telling in David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth, some of Bowie’s music from those albums is used with re-edits of scenes from the movie, worked in with the interviews and commentary.

Whether or not David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth is actually successful in these endeavors, you may judge for yourself. At the very least it is an hour in the brilliant and highly enjoyable company and art of Nic Roeg, David Bowie and Candy Clark. _______________________________

Was Newton an alien?

In the first TV interview where he talks about the movie, Bowie becomes visibly irritated when host Russel Harty describes Bowie's Thomas Jerome Newton character as an alien, and he almost chastises Harty for his presumptuousness; "…it's assumed he's an alien from outer space, but it may not necessarily be true".

Yet on the surface at least, Newton is an alien, who has come to earth to transport water back to his own dying planet. And in interviews Roeg always refers to Newton as an alien. Whereas Bowie doesn't seem so certain about Newton’s origins, or his mission. In the 1992 The Man Who Fell To Earth commentary, Bowie says, "Newton knows he's going to be betrayed, it's very obvious, but he seemingly doesn't do very much about it. So he must be here for some other purpose". As Bowie points out, there are Christ-like parallels. We can hypothesize that Newton’s falling to earth without any evidence of a space ship, is a kind of Immaculate Conception. And he arrives apparently a very pure being, who helps humanity advance and only seeks for himself a way to help his people. What are we to think is the "other purpose" for him being here? Perhaps he came, like Christ to test human-kind? And then of course there is the betrayal. But in the end Newton wasn't born again. He becomes a ruined and lonely reflection of the contemporary culture of decadence and self-destruction. ______________________________

The majority of the footage used here is of course from The Man Who Fell To Earth. But in addition another approximately fifty video and audio sources were used.

Fourteen partial David Bowie tracks were used, as re-imagined parts of the movie soundtrack, and also fairly gratuitously as excuses to just add some rocking tracks that had new or revised videos put together for them.

All tracks and sources are listed in the credits at the end of the film. And listing them here would also be a kind of a spoiler - so let’s not do that!

Like a lot of my video projects, this thing happened by accident. Whilst I was working on the video for Subterraneans, I decided that it would be good to have an accompanying video that compiled in a very simple way, all the relevant interviews with Bowie where he talks about the film. I imagined that at most, it would be a thing of about 15 or 20 minutes. However, as is usually the case with me, I went very deeply into it, and found a lot more material than I bargained for. It quickly became clear that here was a great story that needed to be told in film, and the thing just kept growing in size and in complexity. In the end I have been working on it consistently and compulsively for the last 3 months and put in perhaps 700 hours of work.

Hope you dig it!

I don't own the rights, and I'm not making any money out of this etc. Just a fan making videos for other fans.

FREEZING - a cold water surf trip. from Two Eyes Film on Vimeo.

Freezing is a journey to the icy fringes of cold water exploration – in search of a mythical wave – that pushes friendships, frontiers and fortitude to their very limits.

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FREEZING - 22mins Filmed on location in Iceland WRITTEN, PRODUCED, DIRECTED: Rob Lockyear & Jeremy Joyce Jamie Baughan as 'Jamie' Jeremy Joyce as 'Jeremy' GUÐMUNDUR ÓLAFSSON as Farmer Cinematography - Robert Regan Script Superviser & Production Manager - Alex Bertschin Sound Recordist - Tom Hobday Studio Sound - Lawrence Kendrick Additional Writing - James Hogg Original Music - Julian Joseph & Micky Dow Songs by - Rory Nunn Post Production Assistant - Hana Ishikawa

AZURARA_som from mmdsgnr on Vimeo.

ABSTRACT FORMS from WowFilmes on Vimeo.

L’homme et la mer Charles Baudelaire Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer ! La mer est ton miroir ; tu contemples ton âme Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame, Et ton esprit n’est pas un gouffre moins amer.

Tu te plais à plonger au sein de ton image ; Tu l’embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur Au bruit de cette plainte indomptable et sauvage.

Vous êtes tous les deux ténébreux et discrets : Homme, nul n’a sondé le fond de tes abîmes ; Ô mer, nul ne connaît tes richesses intimes, Tant vous êtes jaloux de garder vos secrets !

Et cependant voilà des siècles innombrables Que vous vous combattez sans pitié ni remord, Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort, Ô lutteurs éternels, ô frères implacables !

Charles Baudelaire

taliesin sonata final from SKYLINE INK on Vimeo.

Project Trumpmore - Official Trailer from Admin ProjectTrumpmore on Vimeo.

Let's build the biggest ice monument ever to test if climate change is real. projecttrumpmore.com

Floater from Foster Huntington on Vimeo.

A group of surfers in California have been working for years on perfecting the ability to ride waves without surfboards. Here are some of their exploits.

Made possible by Poler Stuff. Make sure to check out their line of surf clothes and accessories at their store in Laguna Beach, CA and at polerstuff.com/.

Floating by Trevor Gordon, Ryan Burch, Spencer Gordon and Travers Adler Special Effects by Johanese Gamble and Casey Price Edited by Shelby Menzel Directed by Foster Huntington Filmed by Will Adler, Erin Feinblatt, Andrew Schoener And Foster Huntington Music by Les Difficilies de Petion-Ville, "An Septiemo"

Special Thanks to Benji Wagner, Nate Heartt, R3D Digital Cinema, Spike Jonze, and the dude on the SUP.