Kathy Kasic

“Through the Mirrors” is a poetic and musical evocation of the inevitability of time, inspired by W.H. Auden’s poem “As I Walked Out One Evening.” Snapshots from a woman’s life – from youth to old age – and from natural landscapes are framed and reflected in slowly spinning mirrors. At the center of it all, a solo pianist (Julien Brocal) plays music by Ravel and Mompou that, with the ebb and flow of its rubato, provides a musical narration to the woman’s story. Slow motion shots, superimposed images, and mirrored projections explore the raw beauty and unceasing flow of time and memory.

Roles: Director, Cinematographer, Editor

World Premiere Screening at the Sorbonne University, Paris
Best Cinematography Award, Open World Toronto Film Festival, Toronto
Bronze Music Award, World Fest Houston International Film Festival
Best Experimental Short - Finalist, Blow-Up Film Fest Chicago
Portland Art Museum Screening
Crocker Art Museum Screening + Projection on museum wall
Filmmaker Day, Cinema Greenwich Village, Screening
London Experimental Film Festival, Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival, Screening
Birmingham Film Festival, Screening

Languid chords and flickering shadows intertwine with the twists in Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture, Daydreams. In the ebb and flow of an afternoon at Tippet Rise Art Center, image and sound meet, tangle, diverge, and eventually drift off.

Screening: Architecture and Design Film Festival, Portland Art Museum

Music composed by Eunice Kim and Julien Brocal

Performed by Eunice Kim and Julien Brocal

Sculpture: Patrick Dougherty, Daydreams

Film Director and Cinematographer: Kathy Kasic

Sound: Mickey Houlihan

This film is a lyrical-performative piece, based on Alexander Calder’s fascination with the universe, using space imagery from NASA projected on onto Calder’s sculpture, The Stainless Stealer.
Role(s): Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Click here an interview with Kathy Kasic about the film, from the Montana International Film Festival, part of the Dreyfest Experimental and Music Films.

Nevada Film Festival, Winner, Gold Reel Award Music Video Competition
Montana International Film Festival
Fine Arts Film Festival, Screening
Cortot Music Hall, Sorbonne University, World Premiere
Bozeman Documentary Series
Portland Art Museum Screening

Sun Streaming is a poetic film about an otherworldly place where large, man-made sculptures reach up to the stars in an effort to find meaning in life and where the music captures light from our own star, sending it across the landscape, and back out to the stars. Within and without, the sun’s radiance illuminates all elements of Tippet Rise Art Center, from the smallest cloud of rosin dust to the sweeping landscape.

World premiere at the Steinway Music Hall in NY.
Portland Art Museum Screening
Architecture and Design Film Festival Screening

Sculptures: Ensamble Studio: The Beartooth Portal (2015), The Inverted Portal (2016)

Mark di Suvero: Beethoven’s Quartet (2003)

Stephen Talasnik: Satellite No. 5: Pioneer (2016)

Alexander Calder: Two Discs (1965)

Music composed and performed by Eunice Kim

Film Director/Cinematographer: Kathy Kasic

Sound: Mickey Houlihan

Poetry: Peter Halstead
Role(s): Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor

A live cinema performance of an experimental film about life in misalignment, with musicians on piano, sound plane and Kyma & edited live using Resolume Avenue VJ software at Kyma Conference.

The Enter the Wind is an experimental film that takes the perspective of a dreaming Absáalooke poet, Montana’s Poet Laureate, Henry Real Bird. Enter the Wind won two awards at the 2014 University Film and Video Association conference and was nominated for Best Experimental Film at the Wimbledon International Short Film Festival. 

This film was also part of a Sensory Art Installation.

A tranquil contemplation of Mark di Suvero’s sculpture, Beethoven’s Quartet, on display at Tippet Rise Art Center.

Portland Art Museum, “An Evening with Kathy Kasic”
Architecture and Design Film Festival

Sculpture: Mark di Suvero, Beethoven’s Quartet (2003)

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, op. 132 - Molto adagio; Andante

Performed by the Dover Quartet

Film Director/Cinematographer: Kathy Kasic

Sound Recording: Mickey Houlihan, Monte Nickles, Jake Pickett, Joe Shepard

Sound Mastering: Dominick Maita