raphael rosalen multimedia portfolio
social media & video:
visual “essay” vlog: unpacking virtual influencers
social media vlog style editing
video work reel
lyric video for social media campaign of an original song, was added to spotify's “fresh finds brasil” official playlist
critical multimedia projects:
this is the digital - multimedia EP
Multimedia project bridging academic and entertainment practices to introduce key concepts of digital studies. Bringing together theory, music, and images, the website is organized like an art exhibition, structured around four original songs that lead to ideas, articles, and other media to engage in a discussion about the digital space and virtual human existence.
Named “the best of alternative music and electronic pop” by one of Brazil’s biggest entertainment magazines, Revista Quem, alongside other national household names.
call me by your name - sonic sampling experiment
A multimedia sampling experiment with Call Me By Your Name. Lyrics adapted from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman and audio samples of Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet from both the audiobook and movie adaptation by Luca Guadagnino.
(self) surveilled (digital) body
Engaging with themes of surveillance and self-surveillance, this video shows a day in the life of a college student through the perspective of his phone.
Thinking of smartphones as extensions of our bodies and important players in our daily routines, are smartphones benign and helpful or harmful and disadvantageous?
Do they free or restrict us?
what my fingers knew - music video adaptation of essay by vivian sobchack
Academic video project in which I explored music videos as a medium in its new golden age and attempted to bridge academic work and commercial practices. This original music video is an adaptation of Vivian Sobchack’s essay “What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh,” bringing it to life as an audiovisual sensorial experience.
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