It’s been nearly a decade since S.R. Bindler’s debut film Hands on a Hard Body reached theaters, and the director hasn’t been heard from since. That’s about to change as Bindler’s first narrative feature, Surfer, Dude, is set to premiere this Friday in an exclusive Austin engagement and expand to more markets the following week. (Watch this space for a review.) The title may make it sound like a Spring Break sequel, but Hard Body is actually a documentary mostly confined to the parking lot of a Nissan dealership in Longview, Texas. Despite this seeming limitation, Hands on a Hard Body is a mini-epic spanning the full spectrum of human emotion. It’s also very difficult to find: used copies of the long out-of-print DVD are going for upwards of $85 on Amazon. But now you can watch Hard Body right there in the privacy of your cubicle. Hit the jump for details.
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