Promotional material for Sira e o robot

Technically, much of this work is not mine per se, but rather the result of collaborative serendipity and improvisation. However, I thought I would assemble some of Sira e o robot‘s earliest incursions into the audiovisual realm, as we encouraged folks to check out our work, and use this space here to catalogue promotional material as it arises.

For the first book Adventures on Titan, published in 2015 by Xerais, we actually had a budget from them (albeit paltry) to release the following «teaser» and «trailer» to whet the public appetite. Videos by Dani Santos.

For the second book, Crazy Times on Planet Earth, published through a crowdfunding campaign in Verkami, I decided to release 10 videos (one for each song on the CD) every few days on social media in order to give an overwhelming impression. In addition to this, we had to resort to a more direct approach, personally attempting to convince people to participate. Nevertheless, the videos are not without their charm, and are classic examples of making due with available resources, using found footage and filters to give an illusion of coherence, and the inevitable way storytelling occurs, even despite a seemingly arbitrary mélange.

An example of two song videos (the rest can be found here). Video montage and concept design by Lorena Meana at Lorenheart.

When the second edition of our third book, Trial by Fire was re-edited as On Fire! I decided to make the videos myself. The entire collection (5 videos) can be found here. The password is okcomputer.