VIDEOS

Rockaway local Joe Falcone at home in his shaping room. Check out his blog at www.throughtheeyesofaghost.com

Far Rockaway, an inner-city, oceanfront commuter town is just a 40 minute “A” train ride from Manhattan, it is also host to a unique culture – urban surfers. ‘Submerged’ explores this unexpected juxtapostion of NYC’s urban lifestyle with the profound relationship that surfers have to the ocean. Inspired by his own experience of discovering this scene in New York, director Jakob Daschek’s contemplative camera uses the surfers reflections to narrate this short film.

on April 9, 2007 a huge swell from the southern hemisphere hit the entire pacific coast from chile to california, the biggest surf was focused directly at nicaragua