The Sweetest Kiss
Art Video + Commercial Spec
DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DIRECTION
ART DIRECTION
EDITING
Role: Art Director, Writer, Director
I created this surreal video art piece exploring the transformative exhilarating power of a first kiss. I’ve shown in art gallery and film festivals and then I edited down a :30s spec of the piece. Both are below.
Credits:
Director Photography: Matt Klammer
Editors: Eren Gulfidan & Alina Rancier
I created this surreal video art piece exploring the transformative exhilarating power of a first kiss. I’ve shown in art gallery and film festivals and then I edited down a :30s spec of the piece. Both are below.
Credits:
Director Photography: Matt Klammer
Editors: Eren Gulfidan & Alina Rancier
“The Sweetest Kiss” :30s
“The Sweetest Kiss” Video Art Piece
Client: Self
Mala Mujer
DIRECTION
VIDEO ART PRODUCTION
Role: Director, Writer, Producer, Performer
In Santeria, “They believe that by offering the blood or energy from an animal that the animal is taking on the illness of that individual.”
Mala Mujer is a two-channel video piece. In each video a Dominican woman runs after a rooster, a longstanding symbol of masculinity in Latin American society, and brings it to her shrinelike bedroom. Defiantly staring at the camera she slits the roosters throat and lets the blood flow like a river down the bed. The previously popular song called “Mala Mujer” with the lyrics “kill her , kill her, kill her” plays throughout.
It is a piece in the name of the women murdered by their partners in the Dominican Republic. The piece uses symbolism taken from Santeria, a blend of the African religion of Yoruba and the Roman Catholic faith, where there is a tradition of cutting the head off a chicken for religious purposes, like to help cure a loved one’s illness.
In Santeria, “They believe that by offering the blood or energy from an animal that the animal is taking on the illness of that individual.”
Mala Mujer is a two-channel video piece. In each video a Dominican woman runs after a rooster, a longstanding symbol of masculinity in Latin American society, and brings it to her shrinelike bedroom. Defiantly staring at the camera she slits the roosters throat and lets the blood flow like a river down the bed. The previously popular song called “Mala Mujer” with the lyrics “kill her , kill her, kill her” plays throughout.
It is a piece in the name of the women murdered by their partners in the Dominican Republic. The piece uses symbolism taken from Santeria, a blend of the African religion of Yoruba and the Roman Catholic faith, where there is a tradition of cutting the head off a chicken for religious purposes, like to help cure a loved one’s illness.
>
Embody Safety
Fashion Film
DIRECTION
EDITING
SELF-SHOOTING
DANCE
A moving meditation on the act of being a Dominican woman trying to commune with the natural world whilst feeling safe, facing the resistance of an upbringing where true wilderness would always be pregnant with danger.
Written, Directed, Edited by: Alina Rancier
Shot by Alina Rancier and Michael Lovett
Music by Francesca Terberg
Written, Directed, Edited by: Alina Rancier
Shot by Alina Rancier and Michael Lovett
Music by Francesca Terberg
Client: Self
Layers Video Portrait Series
DIRECTION
VIDEO ART PRODUCTION
Role: Director, Editor
Layers is a video portrait series of over 10 videos as an initial exploration into a thought I had some years ago. One day while waiting for the subway, my eyes rested on one of those rusted and peeling NYC subway columns, it's layers of paint visible, every color it had ever been, peeling away making it the initial pure iron it started as.
I wished to myself "Wouldn't that be great? To be able to just peel back all these emotional layers that I've allowed to pile on me through all these years... diffusing, morphing, opaquing the real me... and just return to that pure iron Alina?"
I asked each participant to arrange 7 colors in an order that related to their life from their birth to the present (whatever meaning each color had to them). It's a metaphoric cleanse, a ritual to return to pure.
Below you can catch 3 of them: Layers 1: Adam, Layers 2: Alina, Layers 7: Karina, Layers 4: Christie
Layers is a video portrait series of over 10 videos as an initial exploration into a thought I had some years ago. One day while waiting for the subway, my eyes rested on one of those rusted and peeling NYC subway columns, it's layers of paint visible, every color it had ever been, peeling away making it the initial pure iron it started as.
I wished to myself "Wouldn't that be great? To be able to just peel back all these emotional layers that I've allowed to pile on me through all these years... diffusing, morphing, opaquing the real me... and just return to that pure iron Alina?"
I asked each participant to arrange 7 colors in an order that related to their life from their birth to the present (whatever meaning each color had to them). It's a metaphoric cleanse, a ritual to return to pure.
Below you can catch 3 of them: Layers 1: Adam, Layers 2: Alina, Layers 7: Karina, Layers 4: Christie
ALINA RANCIER 2026