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Rafael Benedetti

Video & film editor. Mathematician. Online educator. A reader of Borges, forever cataloguing — film, language, wine, and the spaces between them.

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Índice · 2026

A personal library, kept in the open. Each entry opening onto the next.

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Projects

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Assistant Editor ↗

A native AI editing partner for Final Cut Pro — logs footage, builds rough cuts, and edits from plain-language prompts, on-device.

macOS app · 2026

The Borges Cuts ↗

An anthology of films after Borges: one feature and three shorts, made in part with the generative tools his stories seem to describe.

In Other Worlds ↗

A web series about the senses we don't have. Twelve animals, one world.

Operator-Steered Data Viz Agent ↗

An agent that turns raw data into polished, interactive visualizations — under a human operator's direction.

ComfyUI in Post-Production ↗

A practical case for generative AI in film & video pipelines — a local, reproducible, node-based restoration workflow.

pipeline · 2026

A feature documentary on Pinot Noir across two valleys — Burgundy and the Willamette — and the year staked on one decision: when to pick. Treatment.

doc · treatment

An interactive map of a word space — where you stand is what you hear; drag the vowel field and a formant synth bends the sound in real time.

interactive · 2026

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Writing

the blogrecent

A Labyrinth of Thought in Lexington ↗

An afternoon with Borges over yerba mate — on Harvard, criticism, and the artificial mind. Published in Destiempo.

On the grammar of the cut ↗

What film editing and syntax have in common, and where the metaphor breaks

Reading Borges as a topologist ↗

The Aleph, the Library, and the Garden as objects with a shape.

A small theory of wine notes ↗

Tasting vocabulary is a language; here is its phonology — with an interactive plate of the notes.

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Films

moving imagereel + lessons

A four-minute short about an editor, a promise, and the images between them.

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Ideas

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The footage is a labyrinth; the cut is a thread that finds its door.

Every cut is like a chisel strike on the stone; the film was always in the footage.

Raw footage remembers everything; to edit is to intentionally forget, until only the underlying story remains.

Each frame is a note; each scene a movement; the cut makes the symphony.

Every proof is an edit: you cut until only the necessary remains.

Wine is the only language you finish learning by forgetting.

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About

the personbio

Rafael Benedetti edits documentary films and designs media for Harvard University online education.

Trained in set theory, he drifted toward the editing bench and never left. He reads Borges the way others pray, takes wine more seriously than is reasonable, and keeps a running list of the words of every language he meets.

previously

Because No One Should Have to Crawl ↗

Editor. A half-hour documentary for the public television series Visionaries, hosted by Sam Waterston. It follows Free Wheelchair Mission to its millionth wheelchair, given to a 12-year-old girl in the highlands of Peru.

documentary · 2018

Shakira, “Estoy aquí” ↗

Editor of the original video (Shakira's first ever) for the lead single of Pies Descalzos. Best Video at Colombia's ACPE awards, 1996. Rolling Stone Italia ranks it 19th of her 25 best.

music video · 1995

A partial list, like every catalogue.

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Now

currentlysep 2026

Editing videos for Harvard University on-line courses. Reading The Odyssey, again (Emily Wilson's translation this time). Building ComfyUI workflows for AI generative media production. Imagining a way to show with images and sounds how a dog's nose reads the street as a timeline. Drinking Pinot Noir, mostly.

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Reference

a shelfthings kept

The full shelf — a commonplace book of everything worth keeping near, kept in the open.

Model Compendium ↗

A filterable matrix of current AI models: open vs proprietary, local viability on Apple Silicon, and licensing.

a matrix · sep 2026

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Contact

say helloelsewhere

rbenedetti@mac.com ↗

@rafa.benedetti

@rafaelbenedetti