ARTIST: Fred Baker

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Novelty Hat

ROLE: Director, Producer, Editor

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BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL 2015

Half music video, half micro-documentary, this short explores the topic of gentrification in Brooklyn over the years while mirroring key themes in the song 'Pocket Full of Detritus' by Fred Baker, off of his 2012 independent release 'The Enemy.' The tone is both poignant and comical, as we explore the ever-changing face of Brooklyn by talking candidly with several generations of 'brooklynites,' native and otherwise. 

This short premiered at the 2015 Brooklyn Film Festival in the heart of Williamsburg, the perfect location to screen this tongue-in-cheek send up of all things hipster and gentrified. Some members of the audience were definitely uncomfortably wriggling in their skinny jeans.