It's hard to believe that skateboarding was outlawed in Norway between 1978 and 1989. Today, the scene in Oslo is thriving, with the country’s first skate magazine Dank helping to cultivate the grassroots of the city’s skating bloc. Editor-in-Chief Eirik Traavik and Art Director Jørn Aagaard look outside the sport’s vernacular for inspiration—for Perry, the latest NOWNESS Short, the pair collaborated with longtime Norwegian snowboarding filmmaker Kasper Häggström to create a new-wave skate film that reflects Traavik‘s desire to “experiment with the rules of skateboard media.”

Perry takes you from Oslo’s deserted summer streets while most of its inhabitants are on their seasonal migration to the coast, to the cabins and fjords of Tjøme, on the southern tip of Norway. “Perry and Dank both have similar minimalist aesthetics,” says Traavik, who credits the evolution of skate film to the influence of mercurial global brands like Polar, Palace and Bronze56k: “But it’s still very important for us to maintain a distinct Norwegian identity.”