Reel 01 — 2026
The Long Way Home
Nine months, four coastlines, one borrowed van. The film that named the collective — premiering on the summer tour.
- 48 min
- 16mm · digital
- Dir. Mara Voss
A surf film collective — formed on the road, 2019
chasing the long way home
We make slow films about fast water — shot on 16mm, from the channel and the cliff, with boards we shaped ourselves.
Now showing — Reel 01 · The Long Way Home
You can't hurry a swell. It was made a thousand miles away, days ago, by weather you never saw. Our films work the same way.
Ericeira · Hossegor · wherever the van is parked
The films
Three reels, one ocean
Each film takes a season or two. We'd rather wait for the water than pad the runtime — when there's nothing to say, the camera stays in its housing.
Reel 02 — 2025
Hollow Days
A winter of empty points in the Basque country, shot between storms and developed in a hotel bathroom.
- 23 min
- Super 8
- Dir. Mara Voss
Reel 03 — 2024
Cold Water Psalms
North Atlantic slabs, eight-millimetre wetsuits, and the people who keep paddling back out.
- 31 min
- 16mm
- Dir. Mara Voss
Selects
Frames from the road — keep scrolling
From the director
"You don't make a surf film. You wait for one, with the camera running and your back to the wind."
The boards
Shaped for the waves we actually surf
Three shapes, refined between films in a shed above Ericeira. Hand-laminated, sanded by whoever lost the coin toss, ridden in everything you see on screen.
Thumbtail Twin
Glassed-on keels and a sanded gloss — the daily driver for point surf.
- Dims
- 5'10" × 20¼" × 2½"
- Vol
- 31.2 L
Mid Glider
Flat rocker, soft rails. For long walls, small days, and not paddling hard.
- Dims
- 7'6" × 21¾" × 2⅞"
- Vol
- 47.0 L
Square-tail Log
Volan glass, 50/50 rails, a nose like a kitchen table. Walk, don't run.
- Dims
- 9'4" × 23" × 3"
- Vol
- Plenty
The journal
Notes from the road
Field notes between films — ferries, film stock, forecasts, and the occasional confession.
Summer tour, 2026
See it with the sound up
The Long Way Home tours coastal cinemas this summer — each screening followed by a Q&A and, conditions permitting, a dawn surf.
Lisbon
Cinema São JorgeJun 20TicketsBiarritz
Le RoyalJul 04TicketsSan Sebastián
Teatro PrincipalJul 11Few leftByron Bay
Palace CinemaAug 02SoonMelbourne
Astor TheatreAug 09Soon
Reserve a seat
More dates added as the forecast firms up.