Chris Bryan Mocean — DOP

Chris Bryan
Mocean

October 12 2019

Surf cameraman Chris Bryan uses high-speed cinematography to show us the ocean like never seen before. Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful nature is.

This is why I love technology respectively psychedelics. Because they can be means to see more, by expanding our perceptual bandwidth. In this sense the film below is a cinematic example of the power that lays in slowing down; achieving a state of hyper-perception.

MOCEAN — A film by Chris Bryan (2018)

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