Studio Berezin Film

I once went for a walk in the San Francisco Bay Area mountains, and ran into these little creatures. Good thing I had my little mighty Canon digital elf with me. Filmmakers still look down at these pocket-size point-and-shoot “soap boxes”, but, unlike our old prejudices, the technology isn’t standing still. Look for yourself:

While taking a class at BAVC in Mission District of San Francisco, one student got curious about the neighborhood – what exactly was it? He went around and asked a few people, got very confusing and contradicting responses, and that’s how we found our theme for the class project movie. We went around the block, talked to a few people – this time on camera, and although we still have no idea what the name of this  neighborhood really is, we’ve learned quite a bit about the area, possibly more than we ever expected to. Once the filming was done, each of us locked up in a room and edited their own version of the story… And now, here’s mine – enjoy!

Raccoons are quite common in California, and they are very smart and cute. They are especially attracted to food in hikers’ backpacks, and would do just about anything to distract people’s attention from the item of their desire – and then sneak in to get it. Well, no point in telling – see for yourself:

…And the site was born. Took it roughly two months from the conception of the idea, registering of the domain, and the climatic insertion of the top-loaded HTML with the “Under Construction” code seed, to this first post. Bang! Judging by the gestation period, it may have to do something with feline creatures, but we have yet to see that…