I’m Arjun Ram Srivatsa. I am an artist, musician, poet, animator, creative director, video director, video editor, motion designer, graphic designer, sound designer, podcaster, journalist, art critic, fiction essayist, trend forecaster, birdwatcher, socialist, and friend living in Manhattan.
I hold a masters degree from Columbia Univeristy’s Graduate School of Journalism.
I was most recently the Director of Programming and Development for Pitchfork. From 2020 to 2021 I hosted Diversity Hire, a podcast about being “POC” in media.
You can find more examples of my work on Instagram.
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Behind the Hollywood Issue, Video, Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair commissioned the amazing duo Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari of Toiletpaper Magazine to direct their annual Hollywood Portfolio. The only challenge was the world was still shut down and it wasn’t safe yet to shoot in person. So they decided to do everything remotely, with photo shoots in LA, NYC, Atlanta, Ghana, and Australia, all directed over Zoom.
I was tasked with somehow turning the remote footage to into a Behind the Scenes video. It’s hard to go behind the scenes of something that was shot solely through video chats, so I decided to play into the computer-based visuals by having the interactions play out on a desktop.
Vanity Fair
c. 2021
Creative Direction
Video Editing
Animation
Sound DesignEditor-in-Chief:
Radhika Jones
Portfolio by Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari
Stylist:
Katie Grand
Art Director:
Micol Talso
Casting:
Britt Hennemuth
Producer:
Michael Kramer