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.
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Ay, Ay, I
Music Video
DIRECTION
CREATIVE DIRECTION
ART DIRECTOR
MUSIC VIDEO
EDITING
Role: Director, Writer, Art Director, Editor
I art directed, directed, wrote, and performed in this piece to a song I wrote, oh yeah I also edited it. It was a lot.
The story: 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 under my alias 'Heart of Fangs'.
SONG 'Ay, Ay, I' by Heart of Fangs written and performed by myself and produced by Jason Nitti
Credits:
Starring: Mateo D’Amato & Alina Maria Rancier
Director of Photography: Erik Rasmussen
Producer: Lourdes Vasquez
Assitant Editor: Alix Duchene
Visual FX: Adalberto Nivar & Johniel Cordero
Colorist: Evan Kultangwatana
I art directed, directed, wrote, and performed in this piece to a song I wrote, oh yeah I also edited it. It was a lot.
The story: 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 under my alias 'Heart of Fangs'.
SONG 'Ay, Ay, I' by Heart of Fangs written and performed by myself and produced by Jason Nitti
Credits:
Starring: Mateo D’Amato & Alina Maria Rancier
Director of Photography: Erik Rasmussen
Producer: Lourdes Vasquez
Assitant Editor: Alix Duchene
Visual FX: Adalberto Nivar & Johniel Cordero
Colorist: Evan Kultangwatana
Embody Safety
Moving Image Art
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
Kiddie Riders
Moving Image Triptich
DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DIRECTION
ART DIRECTION
EDITING
Role: Art Director, Writer, Director, Performer
A mother takes her child on a tasty ride.
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Kiddie Riders is a series of 3 short videos where I explore that crux of childhood innocence and emerging sensual desires; the humour, the discomfort, and the bizarreness.
Credits:
Director Photography: Chris Heinrich
Editor: Martin Malcolm Henson
A mother takes her child on a tasty ride.
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Kiddie Riders is a series of 3 short videos where I explore that crux of childhood innocence and emerging sensual desires; the humour, the discomfort, and the bizarreness.
Credits:
Director Photography: Chris Heinrich
Editor: Martin Malcolm Henson
Kiddie Riders: Ice Cream
Kiddie Riders: Lollipop
Kiddie Riders: Hot Dog
ALINA RANCIER 2026