Jack McCoy

Biography

Jack McCoy sees things. He sees music in movement. He sees poetry in positioning. He sees grace amid chaos. Jack McCoy sees color and light and patterns like some people see words on a page. And so lucky for us that this seer of things that cant be held in ones hands chose the profession he did. Or, rather that, it chose him. 55 year-old Jack McCoy is the worlds premier surf filmmaker. Since the release of Tubular Swells, his first collaborative effort in 1977, McCoy has produced a remarkable body of work, an aesthetic tapestry woven in 16mm that has spanned more eras than any other surf filmmakerseven the legendary masters from whom McCoy took inspiration. Book-ending this epoch, which began with the bursting vitality of Tubular Swells and its depiction of both the new age of professional surfing and the early, exotic allure of dream-waves like Uluwatu and G-land, is Blue Horizon, McCoys newest project, a look at todays surfing through the shared passion of two equally-talented yet disparate personalities. The McCoy Look. Which, over the decades since this surf child of the 60s from the east side of Oahu expatriated to Australia and eventually picked up a camera has come to mean the absolute gold standard in slow-motion water photography. This technical excellence, combined with McCoys flair for mining surfings rich vein of personality, have elevated his library of films and videos, with titles like A Day In The Life of Wayne Lynch, Stormriders, The Performers, Bunyip Dreaming, The Green Iguana, Occy: The Occumentary, and ToO: Day Of Days into a class by themselves. As if there is the world of surf videos, and the world of Jack McCoy.