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Paul Evans
How a melancholic 90’s indy surf film championing middle aged outliers revealed Hawaiian style surf in the Emerald Isle, and changed what everyday surfers have ridden ever since.
Andrew Kidman and Jon Frank’s 1996 surf film
Litmus was nothing if not original. Against a background action clip parts films or the more polished and cinematic, yet fairly formulaic McCoy/Billabong films,
Litmus stood out in terms of surfers, themes, storytelling and locations.
“The riders, the boards, the places, the ruminations…
Litmus was easily the finest surf film of its decade” said
The Journal’s Scott Hulet.
It’s been described as other things, too. ‘Moody’, ‘grainy’, ‘quite… long’ among them. I had a mate who was particularly offended by the ‘400 cartoon bottom turns’ in Mark Sutherland’s surfing n’ smack animation, in the middle.