{"id":597,"date":"2008-03-12T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2008-03-12T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:40:47","slug":"sliding-into-african-surfing-via-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Sliding Into African Surfing Via Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/liberia-narrowweb-300x4100.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/liberia-narrowweb-300x4100.jpg','popup','width=300,height=410,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/liberia-narrowweb-300x4100-tm.jpg\" height=\"273\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Liberia Narrowweb  300X410,0\" \/><\/a>Filmmaker <strong>Britton Caillouette<\/strong>, has produced <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slidingliberia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sliding Liberia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, an &#8220;unorthodox surf safari&#8221; film which follows <strong>Stanford University<\/strong> political science PhD <strong>Nicolai Lidow<\/strong> and three friends on a surf trip to Liberia according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/film\/in-search-of-the-perfect-wave\/2008\/03\/12\/1205126013937.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shot on vintage 16mm film and digital video, Caillouette&#8217;s film captures the surreal dysfunction that sits at the heart of Liberia, a country crippled by war and founded on a lie. &#8220;Our national motto is &#8216;The love of liberty brought us here&#8217;,&#8221; one local notes, speaking of Liberia&#8217;s founding in 1822 by freed American slaves. &#8220;But me personally, it does not sound good. There were people on the land, so what about them?&#8221; . . . Unlike most surf films, Sliding Liberia makes no effort to keep its discovery secret. &#8220;Initially I was nervous about showing everybody where the waves were,&#8221; Lidow says. &#8220;Then I realised how selfish that was. The locals want tourists to come; they realise it might be good news for the local economy. So now we&#8217;re hoping that everyone goes! In a place like that, surfing really can change people&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film also reportedly captures Liberia&#8217;s &#8220;first surfer&#8221; a boy named Alfred (pictured right). For more info on the film visit the website at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slidingliberia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sliding Liberia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/film\/in-search-of-the-perfect-wave\/2008\/03\/12\/1205126013937.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Britton Caillouette, has produced Sliding Liberia, an &#8220;unorthodox surf safari&#8221; film which follows Stanford University political science PhD Nicolai Lidow and three friends on a surf trip to Liberia according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. Shot on vintage 16mm film and digital video, Caillouette&#8217;s film captures the surreal dysfunction that sits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}