Katrina del Mar Photography
SURF GANG
Katrina del Mar - Director, Producer.
Synopsis
A gang of urban surfer girls leaves its home break and runs a course of chaotic violence until a call comes in from the other side.
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"Surf
Gang" is a 25 minute experimental narrative film about the turf war that erupts
when a gang of tough girls travel out of their home territory of working class
Rockaway Beach and arrive in the luxurious Hamptons The Rockaway Ruffnecks, led
by diminutive wildcat, Baby Rockaway, with their pirate flag flying and their
rock n roll blaring, roll up into a world of ease and wealth made abrasive to
outsiders. The local surfer girls call themselves the Ungratefuls. "Surf Gang"
takes a satirical and sometimes slapstick view of class difference in a world
of both natural beauty and fantastic embellishment.
The
film is shot on Digital Video and Super8mm film, in color and black &
white, and uses still pictures, music, narration and dialogue to move the story
along.
The film explores elements and themes
involving violence, nature, artifice, and mystery; all wound up in the package
of a fantastic modern day fable about the exploits of the Rockaway Ruffnecks, a
deadly and beautiful group of women who surf together, ride together and kick
ass together.
When I spoke to surfers and
surf shop owners I kept hearing the same phrase over and over: "there's
not too many girls who surf."
I decided to portray a somewhat idealized world that I seem to expect, where
lots of women exist not as the girlfriends and afterthoughts to the exploits of
men, but as vital protagonists in a rich and strange story involving action, trust, high
kicks, surfing, music, violence and humor.