Less Comfort Leads To More Creative Freedom | Foregoing paychecks in pursuit of something riskier

 

There’s something about the freezing cold unpredictability of the Atlantic that makes surf films more exciting to watch. Andrew Kaineder knows this as a filmmaker and that’s why he suffered through months and months of a harsh Ireland winter to get the goods.

 

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“I was a shit surfer when I was a kid, so I picked up a camera in my teens and started filming my mates,” Andrew says, before briefly going silent as he passes a police car. “I worked for the WSL for a while and then after Russ (Bierke) won Cape Fear I got that O’Neill project and it snowballed after that.” Around this time, Andrew also made a film called The Man & the Sea that was to be somewhat of an epiphany, and go on to influence the direction that he wanted to take his career. The film was an exploration of growing—both metaphorically and in years—and man’s relationship with the environment, namely, the ocean. Derek Hynd’s insightful words dubbed over his avant-garde, finless surfing struck a chord. “It resonated with people outside surfing because it was about growing up and getting older and the connection to the ocean and your environment,” Andrew says. “I wanted to build on that.”

 

 

 

Click to MONSTER CHILDREN for the interview on Beyond The Noise

 

 

 

 

 

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