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Watch: Morgan Maassen x Daria Fuchs’ Elemental Screenplay

Weekend viewing to keep your jealousy well-fed.

cinema // Jan 19, 2025
Words by Pedro Ramos
Reading Time: 2 minutes

Apricity stands for “the warmth of the sun in winter.”

The word likely made its way into English in 1623, thanks to its probable creator, Henry Cockeram. It hasn’t seen much use since the 17th century and is pretty much dead in modern dictionaries, with only the Oxford English Dictionary bothering to keep it around.

Now, it might find its way back into the lexicon of surfers, snow bros, and sisters alike, thanks to a Swiss snowboarder-cum-surfer’s dissemination of her new bi-element short film.

That Parko cutback at Cloudbreak comes to mind. Frame: Morgan Maassen

Directed, filmed, and edited by Morgan Maassen, Daria Fuchs’ portrait begins in the Bernese Highlands of landlocked Switzerland — a place she holds dear and where she first discovered snowboarding.

But when the snow melts, Daria has to go elsewhere to keep her rails wet. Halfway through the film, a small cloud interrupts the apricity, marking Daria’s transition to her liquid element, and the scene shifts to an idyll that should resonate with our readership a little more — the Ments.

Same element, different state. Frame: Morgan Maassen

As part of a developing surf nation that relies on a single wave pool to satisfy its population, Daria’s done a hell of a job getting her surfing up to scratch.

After all, surfing and snowboarding — they’re cut from the same cloth. One’s on liquid, the other on ice. Not many of us have the 20,000 hours to master both. Daria’s putting in the time.

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