We all know how exciting a GoPro camera can make our lives look. Mount one to the end of a surfboard, on the handlebars of a mountain bike or to the helmet of a wingsuit diver and the viewer can get a similar stomach-churning thrill.
But what if extreme sports are not on the day’s agenda? Can GoPro make loading the dishwasher or drinking bottled water exciting?
The filmmakers for YouTube channel Burger Fiction set out to challenge our point of view by mounting a GoPro in 21 random places. And behold, there’s an extreme side to such random events as a woman reaching into her purse or a child reaching into a toy box.
Burger Fiction has a knack for getting us to pause for a couple of minutes with their weekly cinematic quirk posted each Monday to its YouTube channel. Cult of Mac readers, already eating up every news item they could find on the Apple Watch, were treated to a bite of Burger a couple weeks back when the filmmakers posted a video of an Apple Watch unboxing itself.
Burger Fiction has also posted shorts on the meditative experience of going through a car wash, the inner workings of a piano being played and the love story of two windup toy robots. The filmmakers are quite adept at finding magnificence in the mundane by placing cameras at oddball angles.
Feels like stepping inside a wardrobe to a Narnia-like world. OK, it’s still a dishwater no matter how you look at it, but you get to see what a dirty dish sees.
https://youtu.be/gyv-mlhpF1Y
