Client: NZCA Lines


Universal Heartbreak  


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CREATIVE DIRECTION
MUSIC VIDEOS
ART DIRECTION

I creative directed the new EP campaign for British Synth Pop artist NZCA Lines’ “Universal Heartbreak” and separately produced and directed the music video for the title track “Universal Heartbreak”.
The piece was really inspired by Nan Goldin’s photographs, especially “Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, and separately by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, specifically Henry Wallis’s “The Death of Chatterton”. Also 90s luxury fashion ads of sad, sexy models.For the exterior NYC shots the intro sequence to “Manhattan” was my main inspiration; So, lots of 1990s nostalgia at play.

I was after a nostalgic melancholy and wanted the video to feel like u were intruding on an intimate moment. I wanted that feeling of looking at an old printed photo of you and your friends, or an ex lover, and having to like, grasp at your chest because the emotion is too much.

CREDITS
Photographer: Cynthia Villamil
Graphic Design/Typography: Vittorio Perotti of Yohoho Studio
Director of Photography: Isabel Padilla
Editor: Eren Gulfiidan

Universal Heartbreak Music Video

Universal Heartbreak EP Cover

Push Reset Single Cover

Overloaded EP Cover

Client: Art21


Joiri Minaya’s Pattern Making


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EDITING
DOCUMENTARY
VISUAL ARTS
I was commissioned by Art21 to create a short documentary about Dominican Multidisciplinary Artist Joiri Minaya for their “New York Close Up” series.
Shot in between DR and NY the histories, realities, and fantasies of the Dominican Republic and the wider Caribbean are explored, exposed, and subverted as Minaya seeks to control her own representation and visibility.
Joiri’s work is very layered visually and conceptually and I always envisioned some parts of this film edited in a similarly graphic layered style, as a conceptual nod to her work.

CREDITS
Director, Producer, Editor: Alina Rancier
Director Photography: Sophia Marcos (DR Unit) + Isabel Padilla (NY Unit)



Client: The New York Times


Subscriber Events


MOTION GRAPHICS
TYPOGRAPHY
BRANDS
EVENTS

The brief was to create an exciting animated piece that would bring everyone together and prepare them for the event ahead. I motion designed this kinetic animation in collaboration with The New York Time's marketing team. It was played as an intro to all their in person Subscriber Events.

Client: NZCA Lines


Infinite Summer Tour 


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ART DIRECTOR
EXPERIENTIAL MUSIC
EDITING 
MOTION GRAPHICS

NZCA LINES was looking for a live show visuale for his “Infinite Summer” Tour. I proposed a series of cinematic videos to play behind him. In collaboration with Joe Desjardin and Matteo Mastrandrea of Taxonym we created a live show with projections on a semi transparent scrim, lights,
Scroll down to see an edit from the show, some of the videos created and stills from the show.







Ay, Ay, I


Music Video


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CREATIVE DIRECTION
ART DIRECTOR

MUSIC VIDEO
EDITING

I art directed, directed, wrote, and performed in this piece to a song I wrote, oh yeah I also edited it.

A man and a woman regretfully hold back their true emotions for each other. 

‘Ay’ is a short experimental film written, directed, and co-starring Dominican American. The music is written & performed by her under her alias 'Heart of Fangs'. SONG 'Ay, Ay, I' by Heart of Fangs written and performed by Alina Maria Rancier and produced by Jason Nitti

CREDITS:
Director, Writer, Art Director, Editor: Alina Maria Rancier
Starring: Mateo D’Amato & Alina Maria Rancier
Director of Photography: Erik Rasmussen
Producer: Lourdes Vasquez
Assitant Editorr: Alix Duchene
Visual FX: Adalberto Nivar & Johniel Cordero
Colorist: Evan Kultangwatana


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