Film
Why
About
Director
hugo clouzeau
Producer
NRS, we are hungry
Featuring
stephane pion, mathieu coldebella, louis hetier, guillaume fievez, hugo clouzeau
Sponsor
NRS, spade, Picture Organic Clothing, crosscall, kayaksession, selects paddle
Running time
7 minutes
Country / Nationality
france
Our Judges say:
Drop it like it's a big ass waterfall. Some nice shots and beautiful scenery and in that scenery some very big waterfalls.Ed Birch Director of Salt-Street productions
Intense, meditational kayak moviePaul Hodgson Music Judge
Iceland. A cold, rugged and forbidding landscape where powerful rivers plunge through bedrock gorges, over massive waterfalls, toward the sea. Director Hugo Clouzeau and a crew of French kayakers travel here to ask the question, “Why?” “Why? Why do we do this?” In the GoPro age, images of extreme feats flood our social media streams. We watch skiers drop into impossibly steep and narrow shoots. We follow jumpers in wing suits flying over mountains. We see climbers, slackliners, mountain bikers and paddlers doing things that appear to most people insane, but the action seems empty when we don’t understand the motivation behind it. “Why?” we ask. “Why do they do this?” WHY, a short film from NRS and We Are Hungry, goes beyond the spectacle of extreme kayaking in search of an elusive answer.