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Earlier this year, the filmmaker Toby Cregan released his sci-fi surf film Nix Nic Nooley. The 40-minute film conjures up a fantasy world in the year 2879. There is transmutation, flight, prophecy and wizardry.
“Due to pollution the ocean has dried up, the only way to surf is by time travel using a cybotactical head unit. Zilou and Bibilou are two of the only humans interested in surfing, this is their story back in time.”
Apart from illuminating the many genuine gifts of Creed McTaggart, who filmed for NNN in between trips for Cluster and Strange Rumblings, we see the very underrated surfing of Duncan McNicol and a roll call of cameos that include Noa Deane, Dion Agius, Beau Foster, Nate Tyler, Wade Goodall and Jay Davies.
A few minutes ago, I asked Toby, who is 24 years old and who is also principal in the band Skegss, why the movie was suddenly for free. He said he’d sold out his entire print run of DVDs (500, of which 50 were gifted to friends) so, “why the fuck not?”
“Literally, the next day, we had Beau Foster in a dress because we knew if we didn’t shoot straight away it wasn’t going happen. It was just going to be one of those things we talk about, like, ‘We should do that movie where we dress Beau Foster up in a dress.'”
The idea for the movie came when Creed, Toby and Duncan were driving from Byron Bay to nearby Cabarita for a surf. Duncan had just watched the Oscars and he announced that he would make a “fucking sick actor.”
They started shooting the next day.
“Literally, the next day, we had Beau Foster in a dress because we knew if we didn’t shoot straight away it wasn’t going to happen. It was just going to be one of those things we talk about, like, ‘We should do that movie where we dress Beau Foster up in a dress.'”
Why the dress?
“Because everyone on the internet, and in real life for that matter, says he looks like a chick. And because he does. He’s a hot dude.”
The name Nix Nic Nooley comes from the opening scene where Duncan and Creed speak a invented language called Zeekna. Listen carefully and you’ll hear.
Nix Nic Nooley translates as let’s go surfing.
Now watch!
NIX NIC NOOLEY from Toby Cregan on Vimeo.
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these people are the true heirs of Australian surf culture. But I reckon there’s no fucken way they would learned English that quick.
That boned melon grab kick-out looks sick! I would love to see that pulled w/ a proper BS air. Come on Thom, do you really want to be a concreter?
“very underrated surfing of duncan mcnicol” …his surfing consisted of roughly 130 no-pop shuvits, 60 chop hops, 34 sex changes, and 2 legitimate airs. I reckon that Gabby could outsurf him switch
yeah but could Gabby out-act him? I think not!
So you think all of Gabby’s tears are real?
He was doing spinning mctwisties to prone over a year before Kelly made them popular. Pretty visionary if you ask me.
we have wave pools now. Why wouldn’t we have them in 2879? And I noticed they travelled back to a time where there were lots of other surfers in the water – why wouldn’t they go back another 75 years? I don’t think I can get behind this storyline.
Australian surfing is androgynous? Fun as hell to watch but sobering to think that not one of those guys would get a free pair of boardshorts in Brazil.
Ah but longtom, who would SELL more board shorts?
an androgynous Brazilian.
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