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Originally released in 1995, Adrift is an ahead-of-its-time look at the longboard renaissance. Through filmmaker J Brother’s lens, generations collide—Donald Takayama, Kevin Connelly, Nat Young, Dino Miranda, a teenage Joel Tudor, and more.
“In ’93, I was on a surf trip to the North Shore, borrowed a camera, and shot the first footage of what would become this movie,” J Brother says. “When I returned home and watched Nat Young throw a six-foot spray while doing a drop-knee turn, I realized that I had something special. For the following two years, I was blessed to meet and shoot with some of the best longboard surfers in the world.”
Eight years after Adrift’s release in 1996, director J Brother sat down with CR Stecyk III in 2004 to discuss the film. Stecyk takes cultural stock in the film’s non-commercial impetus, its contributions to longboarding, and its influence on the surf films that followed.
Pick up a copy of TSJ 34.4 to check out “Aesthetics: J Brother,” a look at the filmmaker’s history, work, and moodboard, with an introduction by Scott Hulet.
See more at jbrotherxlvp.com and @jbrotherdotcom.
