RE-MOTE: MORNING OF THE EARTH IN A NEW MILLENNIUM
While MOTE helped mythologise surfers like Michael Peterson, Steve Cooney and Baddy Treloar, Albe will tell you it was always designed to shift human consciousness towards a more symbiotic relationship with nature.
When he was co-founder of Tracks in the early 70s, Albe Falzon had a hectic schedule. Back then Tracks was produced out of a rustic, two storey house at Whale Beach in Sydney.When he wasn’t working on the magazine, Albe would dash north to shoot for his movie project, ‘Morning of the Earth’. Somehow, between deadlines, Albe also squeezed in a trip to Bali and a spell in Hawaii to gather footage for a film that would ultimately inspire a generation, and echo through the decades. These days Albe lives on the north coast, where he spends his days pouring over his archives, tending to injured native animals and riding all the waves he
