SURF FILM REVIEW // People can be wary of experimental cinema, whether that’s for a perceived oblique message or a sense of isolation and confusion. That won’t be the case with Tin Ojeda’s ‘Expencive Porno Movie,‘ because at its core, it’s some of what the director does best: capturing exquisite surf scenes that balance beauty and hyper-energy. Shot on Super16, the film has a glorious vintage edge but really the name says it best—this is surf porn. 
‘Film is so beautiful. I just love grain, color, latitude. The sound of the camera when I am shooting it.’ Argentinian-born Ojeda is a tenured surfer in addition to being a successful filmmaker. ‘I’ve been working with film for a very long time,’ he shares with Cool Hunting. ‘I love the format of 16, I absolutely do not like digital. Everything is digital these days. Film is so beautiful. I just love grain, color, latitude. The sound of the camera when I am shooting it.’ He lands that desired appearance despite admitting that part of the wonders in working with film are the variance in different stock and the potential for the unexpected. 
Artistic scenes buffer the interspace between shots on the waves. Though most concisely, Ojeda observes, ‘It’s an art experimental project with surfing—with little stories within each scene.’ 
Despite being so evocative, the name actually directly represents Ojeda’s feelings of the film. ”Expencive,’ because the movie was really, really expensive. Shooting was expensive. It’s impossible to make a film movie just out of your pocket,’ he says. ‘The porno [mention] is the very exciting part; the surfing. People relate it to sexual and pornographic activity. I see it relating.’ Ojeda combines all that with what he refers to as funky pornographic music and inspiration from the ’70s blaxsploitation, grindhouse era of movies.
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