SURFWISE screening on July 19 & 20, 2008
“There is a wisdom in the wave, high borne and beautiful,
for those who would but paddle out.” - Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, MD
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Updated June 24, 2008
SURFWISE
screening on July 19 & 20, 2008
“There is a wisdom in the wave, high borne and beautiful,
for those who would but paddle out.” - Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, MD
Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them cohabitating in a 24 foot camper. Together, they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most, but enviable to anyone whose dreams succumbed to a 9-5 job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn’t run out of frontiersman.
Doug Pray’s documentary SURFWISE posits an intriguing question: just what is the true American dream? By 1956, Paskowitz was successfully rising in the worlds of medicine, sports and politics. He had easily conquered one version the American success story, but his idea of the “dream” found its realization in the then, relatively small nomadic community of surfing. Through his interaction with nature and quest for a more natural form of mental and physical health, he found transcendence. And that idea of finding something “holy” in nature, harks to the earliest Americans, whether they were natives or refugees from Europe. The idea was to find some greater force in the physical surroundings of the land; transcendence if you will. And coupled with that idea was the fact that the new world offered one the freedom to pursue their dreams.
Spurning the 50’s infatuation with material prosperity, Paskowitz choose instead to raise his family on the road, where they were frequently down to their last dime. And as the film recounts Paskowitz’ fantastic journey, it prompts one to consider our contemporary idea of the “dream.” What has it become? An aspiration to be a finalist on ‘American Idol’? Or more to the point: is a person’s true worth based on their possessions? If this is in fact the case, then indeed the Paskowitz experiment was a failure. But if Paskowitzs’ life is taken in the context of what the American dream originally was, then Doc Paskowitz may be one of the richest men in our country.
Tickets are now on sale at our box office, or on-line here. Also, see the Coming Attraction page for more film info here. The Surfwise website offers webisodes and other film info, here.
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THE FINE PRINT: Participant redeems 8 tickets (matinee or evening rate) for one ‘pass’ to Reel Mountain Theater in Estes Park. Redeemed tickets must have been purchased on or after Friday November 18, 2005. Limit of two tickets with the same date at time of redemption. Passes are subject to normal pass and rating restrictions. Passes may not be sold. This promotion is intended for individual participation; group collection or redemption is not permitted. Promotion may end without notice at any time.
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sized popcorn
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Assistive Listening System Headsets 
Thanks to a cooperative effort with Community Hearing Center of Estes Park, Reel
Mountain is equipped with headsets that allows
patrons with hearing loss to enjoy the program. The infrared headsets are available at no charge on a first
come-first served basis. The Reel Mountain
system is fully compatible with the TV Ears infrared home system offered at the Community Hearing Center
(970-586-5255). Patrons that have their own 'ears' may
use them , our system is always on. For more
information about ALS at Reel Mountain, stop in or contact audiologist Wendy
Koenig at Community Hearing Center.
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