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The Singer Is the Canvas in This Projection-Mapped Music Video

Director Nuno Barbosa's music video with Emmy Curl was shot with one singer in one take, but thanks to projection mapping, features many faces.

GIFs by Beckett Mufson

Filmmaker Nuno Barbosa, who in the past has visualized the works of artists including Moby and MAGNOLIUS, recently directed Emmy Curl in a video for her new song, "Come Closer," covering the up-and-coming Portuguese singer-songwriter in shifting, projection-mapped patterns. Unlike the projection-mapped make-up model designed by Omote, Curl actually gains as many as two extra faces singing, aligning, unaligning, and realigning with each other at once, throughout what could only have been a dilligently practiced dance between performer and projector. According to the video description, however, all it took was "One take, no post production," and all of its effects were done in-camera.

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We can't stop watching Curl's effortless transformations from radiant singer to Mystique-like shapeshifting humanoid—oh, and the song's pretty catchy, too.

Visit Barbosa's Vimeo page for more of his signature music videos.

h/t Prosthetic Knowledge

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