6.5/10
One of the most popular surf videos from the 1970's, Crystal Voyager is a loose documentary following George Greenough's search for isolated surfing locations and the construction of an enormous yacht to achieve this end. This is interspersed with shots of Greenough and friends riding waves in the California sun set to G. Wayne Thomas' gentle psych-pop tunes. The drawback is Greenough's narration, which sounds bored, flat and devoid of all human emotion. The main attraction is the 25-minute closer, shot with a camera strapped to George Greenough's back to create a "you are there" effect, slowed down and edited to Pink Floyd's "Echoes". Whether it's a brilliant piece of avant-garde filmmaking or the end result of a stoned, self-indulgent hippie with too much time on his hands is up to the viewer to decide but I thought it was quite lovely to watch.
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