Film > Australian Cinema Classics

In 1972 Crystal Voyager took us on a surreal journey deep inside the vortex of huge breaking waves where time enters a space, a zone of its own. The film becomes a cult hit throughout the world, "Perspectives flatten a seascape into a field of plowed up furrows. Slow Motion reveals the multitudinous beauties of sea water. Sometimes a wide angled lens distorts the horizon's curvature; the world becomes a green ball you can throw up and catch. The last 25 minutes is an almost unbroken underwater trip of a thousand translucent tints, accompanied by the electronic music of Pink Floyd pinging out of infinity like an echo sounder. To see it stone cold sober on a wintry morning is exhilarating. To see it "stoned" as I guess some surf freaks have, must be out of this world"