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I'm moved by movement. I love the look of well-worn face. Beyond look, my work seeks to hold tension between duty and desire, sexuality and sensibility, ambition and belonging while remaining grounded in character and lived experience. I'm interested in stories that feel intimate yet expansive, politically aware yet emotionally specific, and that leave space for beauty, friction, and becoming.
Country: United States of America (USA)
Webpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kearneykathryn
Kat Kearney is a writer and director working at the intersection of performance, anthropology, and cinematic storytelling. A graduate of Harvard University, where she studied anthropology and dance, her work is shaped by a deep curiosity about kinship, power, desire, and the systems that structure intimacy. She is currently an MFA candidate in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University where she was awarded the Jesse Thompkins III Screenwriting Award. Kat’s films are visually driven and actor-centered, often incorporating movement and sound as narrative language. Drawing from her background in dance, she approaches directing as an embodied practice within which she demonstrates her commitment to improvisation, collaboration, and discovering emotional truth through play. Her storytelling explores complex interior lives, particularly those of Black women, with an emphasis on nuance, vulnerability, and contradiction. Up next, Kat will direct and choreograph “I’d Rather Die,” a narrative short that explores the enduring cost of predatory migration policies, how queerness presents in different generations, and the cost of digging up memories that were meant to stay buried.
Just as a young dance instructor has just begun to move through the grief of...
