Kate Raney - Films

Cleo Project (work in progress)
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My new video is a Sponsored Project at High Concept Laboratories. I’ll be shooting at HCL Saturday, June 11 and 12th.
The project has a working title of The Cleo Project. Here’s a brief pitch for the project.
The Cleo Project is an experimental short that uses Agnes Varda’s film Cleo From 5 to 7 as a prompt to explore performance and gender. Multiple women will enact the same scene from the film while being given direction and adjustments on set as cameras roll. One camera will shoot the scene as it plays out. An additional camera will document the director working through the process of performance with the actresses.
Combining video, film and animation, The Cleo Project will capture the moments when the actresses deal with the complex negotiation between performing femininity and embodying the self.


	Cleo Project (work in progress) View Project Blog My new video is a Sponsored Project at High Concept Laboratories. I’ll be shooting at HCL Saturday, June 11 and 12th. The project has a working title of The Cleo Project. Here’s a brief pitch for the project. The Cleo Project is an experimental short that uses Agnes Varda’s film Cleo From 5 to 7 as a prompt to explore performance and gender. Multiple women will enact the same scene from the film while being given direction and adjustments on set as cameras roll. One camera will shoot the scene as it plays out. An additional camera will document the director working through the process of performance with the actresses. Combining video, film and animation, The Cleo Project will capture the moments when the actresses deal with the complex negotiation between performing femininity and embodying the self.
	The City in Which 2 minute segment, 16mm, 2011 The City in Which is an expanded cinema project based on Chicago poet Li-Young Lee’s “The City In Which I Love You”. Co-Produced by Joshua Dumas and Christy LeMaster. For more information on the film and all the lovely and talented people involved click here. My segment uses photos of Chicago buildings that have been torn down to create a paper landscape, which like memory fails to sufficiently map the city.
	Deux Petits Bateaux 2 minutes, video, 2010 Watch on Vimeo A cut-out animation of two kids on a sailing trip who embark on an underwater adventure when their phonograph falls overboard. A dancing fish/people extravaganza featuring music by Chicago band Mar Caribe.
	Flying Alice 3 minutes, super 8, 2010 Alice is adrift in the world. Commissioned by Chicago Filmmakers for their yearly screening Super-8 Rides Again.
	Love Draws Blood 3 minutes, video, 2009 Watch on Vimeo Love Draws Blood investigates innocence and desire bringing together photos, paintings, and found super 8 film in an animated collage. Music by Jitney.
	Paradoxes and Oxymorons 1 minute, video, 2008 Watch on Vimeo An animated interpretation of John Ashbery’s poem Paradoxes and Oxymorons that offers a meditation on shapes, lines and language. Created as part of Poetry Everywhere at docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in association with the Poetry Foundation. Aiming to focus a new generation of filmmakers on poetry as subject matter and translate it to the screen. The project then screened on Transit TV bus monitors in Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Orlando, Florida. Production credits: Animator: Kate Raney Poet: John Ashbery Narrator: DJ Spooky Celloist: Ray Chi Produced by: DocUWM and The Poetry Foundation
	I Love(Hate) You 20 minutes, video, 2007 I Love(Hate) You: Rita on Vimeo I Love(Hate) You: Gloria on Vimeo I Love(Hate) You: Mitchum on Vimeo I Love(Hate) You: Rita, The Blonde Reprise on Vimeo I Love(Hate) You appropriates film noir footage featuring Rita Hayworth, Gloria Grahame and Robert Mitchum. Characters are decontextualized as everything from the mis-en-scene to audio is destabilized and reinvented. Strange swirls and drips set the tone for examining the destructive relationships and identity crises that unfold. I Love(Hate) You investigates the spaces between love and hate, sex and violence, beauty and horror, self and other.
	Mapping the Lengths Between 4 minutes, 16mm, silent, 2003 This project speculates on the nature of identity when a bird woman realizes she has fish in her veins.
	“One night you hear a scratching…” 4 minutes, video, 2003 Reinterpreting the story of the Pied Piper, a woman finds relief from domestic anxiety through her new rat friends.
	Melusina and the Fall 4 minutes, 16mm edited on video, 2001 Domesticity and identity are examined in a re-interpretation of a French fairy tale about a serpent woman who is transformed into a bird and trapped.
	View Kate's Demo Reel.