Great art often says more about the artist than it does about its subject. That may be the only thing that Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear has in common with great art. Written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring Douglas Burke, Surfer is an absolutely unique example of the kind of mesmerizing outsider art that keeps cinema alive. This is unlike anything you've ever seen, and probably unlike anything you ever will see. A terrifyingly stark look into the mind of an artist so tortured by existential crisis that the resultant venting spews arrestingly delirious madness across the silver screen. What is Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear? Why is Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear? These question vex me days after the final credits rolled, and I expect I'll...
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- 12/17/2019
- Screen Anarchy
There is no excuse for “Surfer,” an abysmally amateurish vanity production best described as a total wipeout. Produced, written and directed by Douglas Burke, a USC physics professor who would be well-advised not to quit his day job, it has something to do with the fulminations of a pontificating spirit who is given temporary corporeality, and something else to do with a traumatized young wave-rider who’s more or less browbeaten back into hanging ten. It is the sort of movie that sustains interest from scene to scene only because you’re constantly wondering whether it could possibly get any worse. In this regard, it seldom disappoints.
The well-nigh unendurable first half focuses on a lengthy and largely one-sided conversation between Sage, a young man who nearly drowned during a near-fatal surfing mishap a few years earlier, and Jack, the surfer’s father, who does most of the talking even...
The well-nigh unendurable first half focuses on a lengthy and largely one-sided conversation between Sage, a young man who nearly drowned during a near-fatal surfing mishap a few years earlier, and Jack, the surfer’s father, who does most of the talking even...
- 8/17/2018
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
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