The Spray
Climbing road trip in Northern California

Format	Video	Category	Narratives
Title	The Spray	Mins	68
Starring	Joe Kinder, Chris Linder, Vanessa Compton, Collette McInerney, Luke Parady	RRP
Director	Brian Solano	Reviews	1
Edition		Ave Rating	(4.00 of 5)

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egosan 5/10/2010

The Spray as a title evokes images in my mind of a bunch of guys sitting around the camp fire talking shit. It actually refers to climbing by the ocean.... Oh well. The film follows five climbers around a summer road trip. Oh wow, novel. They boulder and sport climb in places of terrific natural beauty and aesthetic. The settings make this movie well worth watching. I found myself inspired by it much to my surprise given my natural bias against sport climbing and sport climbing film. The good: The locations and the climbing are fantastic. Beautiful spots isolated and undeveloped. Crushing climbing by Joe and Chris. Stunning inspiring lines. Cinematography and editing that allows you see and analyse the movement of the climbers. The bad: Stereotypical sport climbing shooting. Obviously cobbled together edits of multiple ascents for the "red point." Not enough film of the climbers working routes/problems and failing. The ugly: Man like mute the umm... talking. Yea the talking is like you know like gnarly bad, yea. Unless you are a sport climber the dialog sections are going to make you dumber. I found it painful to listen to these climbers try to come to grips with verbally the stunning majesty and beauty of the locations they were shooting in. They are of the generation following in Sharma''s foot steps. Left school early, have known only climbing their entire lives. They climb so well and so beautifully, would it hurt them to pick up a book.