Cumulus, stratus and cirrostratus are just three types of cloud that don’t feature in the latest flick from the gang over at KORUA. So if you want to see them, your best bet is poking ya noggin out the window and looking up.
BUT if you want to see the kind of eyebrow-deep powder turns we all dream about, then you’re in luck. Because ‘Clouds’ is exactly the kind of six-minute epic we’ve come to know and love from KORUA.
The film follows Nicholas Wolken through the lens of Matt Foley on a two-week powder-hunting mission across the snowy mountains of Hokkaido, Japan.
The project grew out of a shared love of surfing and surf films: long, drawn-out turns across an open face, the feeling of disappearing inside a barrel, and the patient way those moments are captured on camera. Nico & Matt set out to see if those feelings could carry over to snow, looking for the places where turning on a wave and turning on a mountain start to share the same foundation. Earning every turn on foot, Nicholas went in search of untouched snow, quiet mountains, and the kind of turns that make you forget about everything else.
Riding by Nicholas Wolken (@nicholaswolken)
Filming/Editing by Matt Foley (@mattrfoley)
Photography by Ryan Hill (@_ryanhill_)
