Film
I have produced a few music videos, podcasts, and reality series. In the last few years, I made four projects. Two on DSLR and two on VR. The DSLR projects are: In My Shoes, an autobiographical web series of 8 episodes that in 2018 won a nomination for Best Reality Series at the Webby Awards, and Cambridge Nights, an interview series at MIT (today you would say podcast) that ran for two seasons (30+ episodes). The first season of Cambridge Nights was awarded an Honoree at the 2012 Webby Awards, was a finalist in the 2013 variety and reality category of the Webbies, and was featured by the New York Times.
I’ve also produced two VR projects: Biodigital, an interactive VR story that was presented at Siggraph, and a series of VR Music Videos, together with Jorge Forero from Ludique, which are free to watch and download on Steam. The videos are for the songs, Faking to Dance by Breaking Forms, Riding Away by Katy Snax, and Music is the Language by Dani Magnani.
You can read more about these projects below.
In My shoes (2016)
2018 Webby Award Nominee
In My Shoes is a self-recorded documentary showing the personal and professional life of professor Hidalgo in eight episodes. It was shot between March and June of 2016, and follows Hidalgo to Washington DC, Riyadh, Switzerland, Portland, Monterrey, and Paris. It also includes an episode with the launch of DataUSA (Ep 3) and about the MIT Media Lab (Ep 4). In My Shoes was a collaboration between Cesar Hidalgo and Luisina Pozzo-Ardizzi, an Argentinian filmmaker.
You can watch the eight full episodes of In My Shoes at: inmyshoes.info
Trailers
Episodes
Cambridge Nights (2011-2012)
2012 Webby Award Honoree (Season 1), 2013 Webby Award Nominee (Finalist)
Cambridge Nights was a “late-nite” science talk show filmed at MIT. It featured prominent scientists and scholars, such as Steven Pinker, Woodie Flowers, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rosalind Picard, among many others. It was nominated for a Webby Award in 2013, was an Honoree in 2012, and was featured in The New York Times.
Watch Cambridge Nights on Vimeo.
VR Music Videos (2022)
Available in VR on Steam using the HTC VIVE
This collection of three VR music videos was produced in collaboration with Jorge Forero, a Chilean physicist and visual artist. Jorge developed all of the visuals. My role was to act as a producer, by finding the musicians and coordinating the production and distribution of the content. The videos include three original songs from Breaking Forms, Katy Snax, and Dani Magnani. The VR experiences are free to download on Steam (click on the images below to visit their respective pages).
Breaking Forms, Faking to Dance, VR Music Video
Riding Away, Katy Snax, VR Music Video
Music is the Language, Dani Magnani, VR Music Video
Biodigital (2018)
Available in VR on Steam using the HTC VIVE
Biodigital is a Sci-Fi interactive story set in the year 2117. In 2117, humans live inside the biodigital space, a space where minds are embodied in machines made of biological and electronic parts. Biodigital tells the story of how humans got into the biodigital space.
Biodigital is a fictional story created in a collaboration between Takahito Ito (NHK) and Cesar A. Hidalgo at the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab. It had the support of Daniel Magnani, in sound engineering, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, in data, Federico Wilkens, in design, and Kauel, in design and engineering.