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![juxtaposition [2020]
featuring brayden mott, andrew langdown & alan wood
concept by michael wood
filmed, directed, produced and edited by michael wood
Juxtaposition (released August 2020) evolved out of a bigger scale film project I’d started back in 2017. That film, at the time called ‘Same Difference’ would change to ‘The Fine Line’ as it underwent drastic creative direction changes and my self-taught editing skills improved. What began as a fishing film inspired by my favourite surf films from the 2000’s-2010’s evolved into concept bending, boundary pushing, artistically supercharged provocative thought piece.
I became allergic to mediocrity and obsessed with uniqueness. Never ‘content’, always art. The Fine Line was turning into an illustration of how fishing can be infused with everything else going on in the world rapidly changing around us, present fishing in a wildly different light and also a piece to communicate thoughts and perspectives.
Then, the pandemic slammed everyone’s doors shut to the outside world. We’d been pushing what was actually possible on the fishing front, how we could film it to preserve spots, techniques and uphold unwritten laws of fishing we lived by. So much either was never filmed or only lives in archives because we never wished to ruin a good thing just to get a video out.
During the lockdowns, we would all be on the phone daily, checking in on each other, bouncing ideas around and talking about how f*cked everything was. Juxtaposition’s concept and storyboarding began in those conversations. As the weather cooled and restrictions eased, we reached for our light tackle gear for local stuff. We were back outside and bringing the concept and conversations to life. Make finesse fishing look as cool as possible, something the industry, social media community and general consensus would tell you had nothing to do with each other. Bream fishing has never been perceived as cool, but what if you repositioned it in a completely new light, aligned it with other things to compare or contrast or create an interesting effect. That’s a juxtaposition. taken in Gold Coast, Queensland by @more__ideas](https://s7.imginn.com/631461182_1176950597978615_7425684524863638944_n.jpg?t51.71878-15/631461182_1176950597978615_7425684524863638944_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_s480x480_tt6&_nc_cat=107&ig_cache_key=MzgyOTkwMjIxNTkzMTQ2Mjg5MTE4NTU2OTgwMTYwMDExNTIy.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkNMSVBTLnhwaWRzLjY0MC5zZHIudmlkZW9fbmZyYW1lX2NvdmVyX2ZyYW1lLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=-H4NPXYJpAMQ7kNvwGh5WOk&_nc_oc=AdqNnQ_urZ7xtOgKXJzhBgkVXODVC6c3oMhmXYoYHpykAiVNkSnw2wp9zeCHUrsobmWOSyloah8Jmw0FHx6iL2ME&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=BhERXjC3GPc2uumk-VhhJw&_nc_ss=7a20f&oh=00_AQMR5qw8L4QIVkNflWFtudct0nggGGQ53DWbUAY7qlOQFw&oe=6ADBB635)
