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, writer, music critic, birdwatcher, and friend living in Manhattan.
I hold a masters degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
I’ve made editorial video for publications including The New York Times, Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair. I’ve made commercial work for Ford, McDonalds, and Sony Music. From 2020 to 2021 I hosted Diversity Hire, a podcast about being “POC” in media.
You can email me at arjunrsri@gmail.com
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Lifers Groove x Maxwell Melvins’s "Drapetomania," Music Video
Freer Records (fka Die Jim Crow) is a music label and platform for prison-impacted musicians. For over a decade, Freer has released music by currently and formerly incarcerated artists, upholding their humanity and spreading a message of resiliance.
Lifers Groove is a supergroup of the label’s artists, including Maxwell Melvins (33 years served) and Simply Naiomi (37 years served), For their first single, Drapetomania, I directed, edited, and animated a music video to tell a story about how the carceral state targets African Americans at a disproportinal rate. I used various story telling techniques, including news clippings, researched statistics, and archival footage from the Library of Congress.
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