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As they entered the Palais de Tokyo space, the audience was shown snippets from a 1970s Aussie surf movie named Morning of the Earth. Its sun-drenched footage showed boy and girl surfers shaping boards and raising chooks and carving waves in Australia and Indonesia. Zimmermann said she’d been in touch with its director, Albert “Albe” Falzon, both to secure permission and to discuss the collection. “He’s unreal,” she said: “a gorgeous man. And we had the same vision of the light in Australia, and what it does to colors. I was trying to explain how I wanted to bring that through, and reflect the movement of surfing in the flow of the clothing, and use fabrics that looked like liquid...
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The Australian label’s new collection, Illumination, captures the harmony between humanity and nature, pulling from the sun soaked hues of 70s surf film Morning of the Earth.
In Able Falzon’s 1970s surf film, Morning of the Earth, the surfers are not the only protagonists. In fact, for viewers such as Creative Director Nicky Zimmermann, it is their counterparts — the morning sun, crisp breaking waves, and warm sand — that steal the show...
A chance meeting twenty-five years ago brought together two of surfing’s most influential figures. Dave Rastovich was just a kid when he and his dad drove down the coast, searching for a bit of land and a bit of country...
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal surf film Morning Of The Earth. Filmmaker Albe Falzon joins us to the films recently found footage, his effortless dedication to living in a creative flow state, losing his passion for...
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Fifty years ago today, Albert Falzon premiered what would become one of the greatest surf films of all time: Morning of the Earth.The film premiered on February 25th, 1972 at the Manly Silver Screen Theatre in Sydney and much to...
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