Kathy Kasic

Kathy Kasic is primarily a director and cinematographer. Her core artistic practice is on the development of conceptual films that emphasize an engagement with the senses. A hybrid scientist-filmmaker, Kathy previously was a biologist who recorded the vocalizations of a small nocturnal frog found only in the Amazon. She has now worked on a range of film productions - from blue-chip wildlife TV programs, feature documentaries, narrative films, poetic art films, political commercials, and music performance videos. Kathy's artistic vision and craving for adventure have brought her to film off the bow of a ship, underwater in wild mountain rivers, and to the depths of an unexplored subglacial lake 3600 feet beneath the ice in Antarctica. Her film work has shown at international festivals, museums, galleries and broadcast on television, including BBC, Discovery, PBS and National Geographic. She has been part of three National Science Foundation grants and mentored 12 graduate students. Kathy teaches filmmaking at California State University in Sacramento, and previously taught for six years at Montana State University (MSU) in the Science and Natural History Filmmaking graduate program. While at MSU, she founded and directed the Center for the Communication of Science, the first of its kind in the Northwest. Kathy was the Director of Film Arts at Tippet Rise Art Center, a world-renowned 10,000-acre venue for large-scale sculpture and music performances.