When Wade Goodall and Shane Fletcher set out to capture the Australian surf scene in Pentacoastal, they did it in the only way they knew how: from deep inside. The resulting film, a hybrid between arthouse flick and surf porn, features some truly wild surfing and an intimate look into the soul of surfing in the Southern Hemi. In their words, it’s a “recollection of Australasian exploration following a quasi-recursive map, with elemental moments of expressive wave worship.”
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In this look behind the scenes of the film, we see some of the challenges of shooting surfing in weird conditions to avoid crowds at a popular break. The crew was forced to surf at dead-low tide, causing filmer Shane Fletcher’s knees to get a little banged up from the reef only inches below him.
