Watch: Filmmaker Hugo Manhes Lights Up The Night In France

Night surfs are a novel affair, and more common than many might think.

During a south swell at Lowers or Malibu, or with a Cyclone package arriving to the Gold Coast after hours, will find a handful of surfers—absent that all-too-common fear, of the dark, primordial nada we all soak so calmly in during daylight hours—zipping through the lineup like lightning bugs across the night sky. 

Stab‘s taken their fair share of cracks lighting up the dark, to mixed results, the best coming from flaring out Bruce Irons, as well as a wavepool in the Canary Islands. 

Here’s a high-production project from Hugo Manhes, featuring Avec Gaspard Larsonneur and Ian Fontaine (and their bitchin’ Land Rover Defender 110), somewhere in France, awash in color under a black European sky. 

Does it infuriate you to no end, that the world’s best wave reel empty, unridden, almost half the time?