dreambodega
Open3:00 AM to 4:00 AM

A film studio working the hours nobody is watching. Short films built frame by frame, where every fact on screen is drawn by hand and only the weather is invented.

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Frame from 18040:33
Film 01

1804

Photographs that were never taken, of a revolution that was. Recovered 35mm from Saint-Domingue, shot in gunpowder haze and available light.

Frame from Cinderello0:32
Film 02

Cinderello

Cinderella retold as a sneaker story, drawn the way a 1950s studio would have drawn it. A stockroom kid, a pair of gold high tops, a shoe left on the pavement.

Frame from The Dream Bodega0:28
Film 03

The Dream Bodega

A corner store on a corner that is not on any map. You go in for nothing and come out carrying something you lost a long time ago.

Frame from The Last Customer0:31
Film 04

The Last Customer

Four people describe the shop they found once and could never find again. Nobody agrees on where it was. Nobody found it twice.

Everything here was made between three and four in the morning

House rules

Posted in the window
  1. Facts are drawn, not generatedEvery word, price, logo and mark on screen is rendered in code. Models render weather, texture and light. They are never asked to render something that has to be correct.
  2. Nothing ships unexaminedEvery frame is checked against the specification it was made from, and every rejected take is kept with the reason it was rejected. The record is part of the work.
  3. Specific beats polishedA Vanier corner, Haitian generals, a friend's actual cats. The details only an insider would choose are the ones nobody running the same presets can reproduce.