"My memory of learning a spot, of coming to know and understand a wave is usually inseparable from the friend with whom I tried to climb its walls. Surfing is a secret garden, not easily entered." "But waves dance to an infinitely complex tune. The goal is to understand the purpose of riding them - what the waves are doing and especially what they're likely to do next," Finnegan states. "The science of surfers is not pure, obviously, but heavily applied. The movie, by award-winning director Darius Devas (Being Films), releases to the general public for the first time since premiering at Byron Bay Film Festival in October 2017.įinnegan's "Barbarian Days" is a tribute to the writer's life-long obsession with surfing, capturing the mechanics of the activity in beautiful detail as well as exploring more mysterious, ineffable aspects of the sport. It is narrated by William Finnegan and features former US surfing champion, Rusty Miller. The film, titled "William Finnegan - Barbarian Days," features an excerpt from the best-selling novel, together with stunning visuals of Byron Bay surfers and coastline. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he. A short film portrait of William Finnegan's Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction novel " Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" has launched online. BARBARIAN DAYS is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa, Peru and beyond.
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