Kasey Poracky is a Graduate Student at The Media School at Indiana University. As of May 2019, she will have graduated with an MS in Design and Production. Always wanting to work in film but never knowing how, Kasey’s admittance into The Media School is what got her started. She has learned everything she knows… Continue reading Director Biography – Kasey Poracky (SHIFT)
Category: Experimental Short Films
Short Film: SONDER, 9min., USA, Dance
Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed.… Continue reading Short Film: SONDER, 9min., USA, Dance
HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – December 12, 2019
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST MUSIC FILM: R.A.W. TUBA BEST DANCE FILM: DANCE WITH A DEMON BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: MONK BEST MUSIC: CEMETERY SONG Theme of night: Will to survive Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: OPEN THE WINDOW, 3min., Italy, Music Video CEMETERY SONG, 4min., USA, Music Video/Animation THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE, 5min., Music Documentary DANCE… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – December 12, 2019
Takako Vs Nine Lives Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
Takako Vs. Nine Lives is screen dance that uses a hybrid dance language and multiple camera perspectives to create parodic feminist interpretation of a three act balletic pas de deux/ three round wrestling match. The choreography, performed to an original score, draws upon vocabulary and aesthetic imagery from professional wrestling, classical ballet, comic books and… Continue reading Takako Vs Nine Lives Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
R.A.W. Tuba Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
This film is about a Baltimore child who experienced intermittent homelessness but went on to become a world-class symphony musician and professor. As a child, Richard Antoine White (R.A.W.) slept wherever he could, sometimes in abandoned rowhomes where he was chewed on by rats during his sleep. Now in his 40s, he still has the… Continue reading R.A.W. Tuba Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
Open The Window Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
The room of a hospital, two women waiting. The invitation to the soul to let go, the invitation to react for who remains. A woman on a hospital bed, at the end of her life, is struggling to survive. Another woman is waiting during those final moments. In what is the close separation between the… Continue reading Open The Window Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
Monk Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
A son is brought to a monastery by his parents and left there. He struggles to become a monk and on his journey inward finds protection and solace in three female immortals. This dance for camera is depicted through five sections: root, heart, will, mind and body.
Feel Reborn Here Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
Imagine a place where landscapes and feelings make you want to discover yourself, explore your surroundings, a place where you wish to reveal your inner self, leave the world behind and where you could live according to your true nature . With their energy and their grace, dancers express this urge to imagine a different… Continue reading Feel Reborn Here Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
Dance With A Demon Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
A Demon stalks its prey within the mind of a child, and the consequences of imagination start to seem like reality. Lost inside a fantasy world of dance, a lost Mother must fight for her survival, or become another victim of the demonic clutches of depression. Project Links Facebook Instagram
Cemetery Song Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019
An animated reflection on mortality, “CEMETERY SONG” explores a day in the life of inhabitants of a cemetery as they explore the power of memories, existential dread and finally a peaceful acceptance. Project Links
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