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Zen and Zero

Pavilion At Old School
Delray Beach, FL

Zen and Zero is a documentary about life in general and surfing in particular shot by Austrians in California, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica: a film essay of its own kind. Besides depicting the art of surfing in an authentic way, this undertaking aims at translating the drama inherent in every journey to foreign countries into a movie. The viewer is meant to come along the journey all the way from Los Angeles to Costa Rica â including the philosophical bypasses as well as cultural and ethnological speculations.The beat of the ocean and the sublime psychological sensations of surfing would set the rhythm of our undertaking. We hoped our investigations would result in conclusions of a rather general, almost philosophical sort. At the southmost tip of Costa Rica literally at the End of the Road we finally find Allen Weisbecker whos autobiographical book 'In Search of Captain-Zero' had been an important lead troughout our travels. Who if not him would have the answers to our questions ?In the end we discovered something that was in front of our eyes from the beginning: We had always called the project a zero-sum-game. We visited the ruins of the Mayas, a civilization that understood the concept of Zero long before the West. We spent three months on-sea-level, level-Zero, studying the lifestyle of surfers. We tried to reach a mental state that in extreme sports is referred to as the absolute Zero. Too many coincidences - Zen & Zero

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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