Rebirth of Avi Cohen

date

November 2020

Location

Hollywood Hills // Perris CA

The first day in front of the camera, after a decade behind it. All these years telling other people's stories & thought it'd be a shame not to start to tell some of my own. This 🪂 for me was an exercise in dealing with my daily confrontation with fear... The best things in life are positioned just on the other side of it you know and facing those fears head-on for me is something I covet mastering. Here above is a documented attempt at just that. Thank you for your time, it is after all our most valuable commodity.

Creative

Avi Cohen

Director of Photography

Avi Cohen

Editor

Noah Berlow // Vinnie Hobbs

Visual Effects

Evan Langley Laffen // Henry Lipatov

Sound Design

Pyata Penedo

Meet My mother

date

December 2020

Location

Manhattan Kansas

What better place to start with Episode 2, than with the one who is responsible for any fiber of likable quality that may be sewn into the fabric of my silly little existence with... YOU here and now 💫 Meet the center of my universe and, the very best empath ever manifested, period. Every bump along the road I've ever felt has not only been felt by her only magnified but equally, quickly softened by her with just one soothing phone call... advice, strategy, and a game plan in tow. She is my rock, my lighthouse, and my center. But she needn't worry, because if it makes any sense, I am her... Only, a newer model taught by her to be a braver, more courageous, pokier armored bearing version of the Incredible, loving, communicative, accountable, tenacious, emotionally responsible, fine specimen she's always been. She has literally sacrificed everything to graciously give me every tool I will ever need to be an incredible man and lead an even more incredible life. As the years continue to pass, I would love her to remember just one thing, and that is this: without the bitter... the sweet wouldn't be so sweet.... and that no matter what happens In the short term It will ultimately work itself out with elegance, poise, and abundance in the long-term. I hope as time passes she can graciously let go of some of the weight she, bear in her children's happiness. She needn't worry about her boy and the rest of her flock, as we have all been equipped by her to lead full, rich, fulfilling, meaningful, happy lives. her job here has been done with more purpose, precision, and focus than anyone I will ever meet. And for that, I am forever in debt to her. I'm so lucky to have been centered with her on this great spinning rock, almost as lucky as the rock itself. Here I present to you, 2 minutes of unbridled access to one of the rarest breeds to ever exist, past present, or future.

Creative

Avi Cohen

Talent

Gigi Cohen

Director of Photography

Avi Cohen

Editor

Avi Cohen

Meet My Papa

date

April 2021

Location

Oskaloosa Kansas

Episode 4. Don't blink, you might miss it... Keep your eyes open... you may never be within reach of this again. A commodity in rare form personified into this very man before you... I am currently trying to unfold myself into him. Trying to move with intent, trying painstakingly to metamorphize into an exact carbon copy... In my mannerisms, my perspectives on life's rights and wrongs, my work ethic, my creativity, the way I talk to children, the way I talk to women... my idioms, my patience, and my structure, right down to the texture of my voice... If I'm lucky, I just may sharpen my sticks enough to someday be half the storyteller he is now... He has shaped me for the better in ways few experience. Here I present to you, 2 minutes of unbridled access to one of the rarest breeds to ever exist, past present, or future.

Creative

Avi Cohen

Director of Photography

Avi Cohen

Editor

Avi Cohen

Timeless

date

January 2021

Location

Hollywood Hills // Perris CA

Time is our most valuable asset, better yet our most valuable commodity... Spend it wisely. Choose who you spend it with, wisely. It's the one thing that no matter how diligent, cunning, accoladed, successful, or wealthy one becomes more cannot be leveraged, and once it's gone that's it one can never get more. However, if you glance above here, fate was not only temporarily cheated but bottled up and served cold... Here for you, my fine specimens is a glass filled with the very compound, the fibers my heart are woven from. Believe it or not, this took me and 4 others a cumulative 32 days. Simple but complicated. Much like my life lately...

98 hours

Timelapse Photography Avi Cohen

96 hours

Rotoscope/Composite work Henry Lipatov

31 hours

Color Grading Alex Martin

32 Hours

Edit - Jay Leaveit // Avi Cohen