Sebastian Beach One Fine Day
The feature film ‘Sebastian Beach One Fine Day’ written, produced, and directed by William and Anais Yeager has been chosen as an Official Selection of the NYC Surf Film Festival.
Drew Kampion had this to say about William and Anais’s film.
Sebastian Beach: One Fine Day
The wonderful thing about this creative product of the combined wills and imaginations of Anais and Billy Yeager is how profoundly it succeeds in quietly crystalizing an alternative reality in the here and now.
Their language of innocent play underpinned with a dystopian despair – a sustained dialogue between the sensual pleasures of simple existence and the sense of aimlessness and utter loss that naturally grow out of what George Gurdjieff called “the terror of our situation” – evokes a mood of homelessness tinged with a sweet optimism reminiscent of the 1960s.
Sebastian Beach: One Fine Day is an original film that evokes a sense of having been made by two people that stumbled upon a movie camera in the wilderness and are discovering what it’s for. Narrated by the original music of the filmmakers, it’s a chronicle of the mundane, laced (as it is in everyday life) with the miraculous. It’s a small project, chronicling mostly small things (pelicans, a funny turtle, a few surfers, a beach shack, a Royal manual typewriter, an aging surf star), laced with intimate interactions with gravity and flow (a bunch of waves ridden and enjoyed, trees climbed, dances danced).
The whole thing is propelled by a sense of going somewhere to get nowhere – just moving from here to there, then maybe back again – with no real purpose except being there … and here … taking it all in. Drifting in this miracle of experiencing space and light and soul.
This is creating nostalgia in the present, bringing a feeling of remembering to the moment, making something out of nothing. And such, these two make me realize, is life.
