Last Hope is a collaboration between surfing filmmaker Andrew Kidman (Glass Love, Litmus) and Spunk Records.

Andrew Kidman chose six of his favourite surfing filmmakers to create short films that were inspired by the sea. The filmmakers include Albert Falzon (Morning Of The Earth), Jon Frank (Litmus), Monty Webber, Michelle Lockwood (Kids) and American underground surf filmmakers Patrick Trefz (Thread) and Richard Kenvin (Hydrodynamica). Kidman also provides four special cuts of his own.

The filmmakers created their short films to music selected by Aaron Curnow from some of the greatest independent contemporary artists; Smog, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai, My Morning Jacket, Dirty Three, Holly Throsby, Vetiver, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Brown Birds From Windy Hill (Andrew Kidman + Neal Purchase Jr) and Machine Translations.

See the film preview here and Machine Translations (Chapter Two) Oh Ma The Sea Is Rising here.

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MOGWAI!

Please don’t take this comment in a negative sense also – they are audio bliss! Their show at the Enmore Theatre on Wednesday was close to 2 hours of ear candy, totally blitzed out by the Scottish sonic explorers. Highlight of the set for me was ‘Bat Cat’ off their new album – ‘Hawk Is Howling’.

The Loudest Band In The World

I think Wayne at Oceans Never Listen summed up the night perfectly. I hope he finds his ear drums in the near future.