Jimmy Jazz and Karina Rozunko are no strangers to collaboration. We’ve seen them team up for everything from designing board shorts together to making surf films, all of it with a style that’s distinct and familiar to the pair. Their latest creative effort, Haiku, is another piece that feels exactly like something that would have their fingerprints on it.
Some surf flicks are narrative, walking us through a story waiting to be told. Others are simple surf porn, a blend of music and clips pushed together purely to get us in the mood for a surf. As its name would imply, Haiku leans more heavily into the artistic side. It’s “a loose narrative involving a dream sequence and remote reality,” as they explain it. With a handful of eight mm sections, the film features Rozunku, Alex Knost, Holly Wawn, and Lola Mignot in Mexico, Sumatra, Japan, and Bali, all narrated with poems written in the short Japanese poetry style. It’s trippy. It’s abstract.
