Revisiting Joe G’s High-Concept, High-Saturation Style Surf Shorts

There’s only one Joe G. The best thing Globe has perhaps ever done is give him money and creative freedom. Although best known for his 16-mm full lengths, The Surfers Journal revisited his filmic samples that are equally fabulous. He is Martin Scorsese to Dion Agius’ Robert De Niro….

Sample:

“Joe Guglielmino,” Smith writes, “most commonly referred to as Joe G or Joseph G, but never just Joe, or at least never by me, is a surf filmmaker who occupies a very central position in surf film’s Valhalla. He slouches in the middle of the great hall seated near Kai Neville, across a gilded table from Taylor Steele, around the corner from Michael Oblowitz. Bruce Brown is there, obviously, bored and rolling his eyes at a poster of Bunker Spreckels pinned lazily to the wall by Alby Falzon. John Severson would recoil but is slightly amused so chortles instead.”