In our last issue’s TSJ 35.4, “The Fantastic Displacements of Perfection,” author Dodge Weirath profiles French shaper and laminator Tristan Mausse. His label, Fantastic Acid, specializes in meticulously crafted displacement-style designs with hand-foiled fins and custom glass jobs. “Fragments. Fractures. Ideas left behind,” Weirath writes. “When Mausse looks at surf history, he doesn’t see a smooth, lifting curve. He doesn’t even see history per se. He sees a forever-expanding field of mitosis.”

The feature’s photographer, Thomas Lodin, has shot and edited the above short film as a companion to Mausse’s print profile. Act I features a workshop conversation between Mausse and his mentor, 70-year-old French shaper and artist Joel Roux. Act II features Mausse surfing his designs, scored by fellow French surfer Clovis Donizetti.

Client : The Surfer’s Journal

Music : Clovis Donizetti, recorded directly in Mausse’s shaping bay in Anglet, France

Direction, DOP, Edit, Color Grading