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About Kate

Kate Raney received her MFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and currently teaches at Loyola University Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. She makes cut-out animations and video collages with a mixture of 2-D hand rendered artwork with live-action film/video and animation.

Animation sneak peek!

When I get stuck creatively or when I want to experiment with my imagery I make collages.  Still ones, no animation.  Just printed parts of my video imagery with whatever I have around that will help me think about color … Continue reading

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Lost in a Technological Quagmire

Well, it’s certainly been a while since I’ve posted anything.  The short story is I’ve been doing the boring part of post-production. I’ve been watching, organizing and taking notes on footage.  I’ve also been figuring out a variety of sound … Continue reading

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Thinking Outside My Box

If you’ve been reading my blog and have also taken a look at my demo reel, you might be thinking that this project seems incredibly different from my past work. You may be wondering what brought about this change.  There were … Continue reading

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Behind the Scenes

I just received the production stills from the Cleo shoot from Kara Clarke, and thought it would be a good time for some behind the scenes information.  It was a pretty intense two day shooting schedule, but full of so … Continue reading

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Some production details

So maybe if you’ve been checking out this blog you’ve been wondering what I’m talking about with using Cleo From 5 to 7 as a prompt.  I thought since I’ve finished shooting I could offer a few more details on … Continue reading

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Kickstarter

I finally got around to launching my kickstarter page.  If you’re interested in this project, maybe you will consider donating.  I’m trying to cover the production and some post-production costs.  You can check it out here.  Jeremy put together a … Continue reading

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Sewing the dressing gown

Well it’s finished and just in time for my shoot.  I had to hand sew the feather trim.  

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Prop shopping

I’ve been combing thrift, vintage and various other stores for the past week looking for props for Cleo.  After looking for a robe/dressing gown all over the city that I like the look of and will fit multiple women I’ve … Continue reading

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Playing Cleo

I’m excited to announce the actresses playing Cleo in my new production, The Cleo Project: Katy Albert Katy Collins Chloe Connelly Sophia Hamilton Nicole Ripley Mary Robnett Christy LeMaster will play “The Director.”

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New Project

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, (title subject to change.)  Here’s a brief pitch for … Continue reading

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