Artist's Statement
Ben Kasulke is an award winning Director and Director of Photography with over seven years of professional experience. Ben graduated from the northfield-mount hermon school and received his BS in Cinema Production from Ithaca College following additional study at the Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akadmie Muzickych Umní in Prague.
Ben believes in creating films collaboratively with like minded individuals in an effort to create work that is greater than the sum of it's parts. As a director of photography he hopes to articulate himself through a variety of film and digital mediums in the features, documentaries, short films, music video, news features, and live performances he is fortunate enough to help create.
Ben's professional experience includes employment as a film archivist with The Image Treasury, programmer with London's Raindance Film Festival, and staff projectionist with Olympia Film Society. While employed as the staff cinematographer for the Seattle based Film Company, he was fortunate enough to work with award winning filmmakers Guy Maddin and Lynn Shelton.
In 2006, he received two awards for his Cinematography on Shelton's "We Go Way Back" from the Slamdance and Torun Film Festivals. Ben was also honored to work with director Linas Phillips on his award winning documentary "Walking To Werner" in 2006. THe Seattle Stranger shortlisted Kasulke for it's Genius Award in Film in 2007.
