Videoclip: Empinadim
★ Best Creative Direction Award Winner (2024) "Empinadim" Directed by Rafael Sandim
Category:
Video Clip
Author:
Shigara
Read:
4min47s
Location:
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - Brazil
Date:
Dec 15, 2023
Shigara moves through the city’s shimmering darkness, pursuing a call that echoes so loudly it can only come from within.
Blending tradition and innovation across the multiple facets that shape a contemporary Brazilian, Latin American, queer, and non-binary identity, the short film directed by Rafael Sandim investigates expressions of the urban animalistic instinct to hunt for belonging. Playing with motorcycle samples, arabic metrics and a mix of Portuguese and Spanish lyrics, "Empinadim" was the first single of Shigara's debut EP “Sambaqui Arranha-Céu”, independently recorded and produced to be released on Tropical Twista Records in 2023.
We had one idea, one cellphone and a big dream
Created by an artistic and executive team entirely composed of LGBTQIAPN+ people, "Empinadim" was filmed with an iPhone 15, a chinese clipping lenses kit and the support of Xeque Mate. The costume design is signed by the visionary upcycling brand LAHANDRA, blending oversized agender street wear and an explosive patterns overlay. The main scenery is the thin line between city and nature, shooting in abandoned water tanks filled with grafitti, roads, viaducts and slim pedestrian crosswalks. The short film featured in KUIR Film Festival and won the Award of Best Creative Direction at Videoclip-se Film Festival one year after it’s release.
