[MEET KAT]
KAT VANCLEAVE IS AN AN AWARD-WINNING ARTIST, FILMMAKER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR BASED IN NEW YORK.
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To date, I've helmed the designs of 40+ films including feature films, short films, TV pilots, web-series, music videos and branded content. I’ve had the esteemed honor to collaborate with industry leaders like Destry Allyn Spielberg, HBO, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, & Gensler to name a few.
While moonlighting as an architectural designer in 2015, I spent 3 months in the Himalayas designing the primary residence for Their Majesties, The King & Queen of Bhutan. I know, real life #queenstatus
These days, a lot of my time is spent in a film studio, but I’ve been a studio rat my whole life. As a dancer, the studio meant perseverance, discipline and grace. This is where I fell in love with movement, the human body & our ability to transform a single gesture into a compelling story. This obsession bled naturally into the architectural studio, where I learned to craft our built environments with tools like rhythm, form, shape, and color to articulate intimacy and narrative at the level of the human experience. It’s also where I was first introduced to Commedia Dell’Arte which, in retrospect, is one of the springboards that led to a soft spot for parody & satire that you’ll see in my screenplays & films today.
But my first real teacher was Mama Earth. As a Colorado kid, the mountains taught me the power of scale, the magical quality of light as it kisses the horizon & the most delicious shade of powdery white snow. It made me feel tiny but a part of something big. It made me hungry for adventure, taught me how to play hard & gifted me with a certain fearlessness of getting my hands dirty. Nature also wedged me smack dab in the middle of my family, transforming me into a natural negotiator & an invested collaborator from the jump.
I’m nothing if not in motion & I invite you to share the next dance…
[how i art]
MY CREATIVE ECOSYSTEM
[CREATIVE ETHOS]
UNSTARVING artist
✷ I believe creative integrity and financial viability are not in conflict, but in collaboration.
✷ When intention and wellness are built into the foundation, we create lasting value — for the work, for the team, and for the world it touches.
✷ Together, we can build ecosystems, not just projects!UNSTARVING in action →
[WHAT I DO]
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST THAT WORKS WITH INDIVIDUALS & BRANDS IN THE REAL AND MAKE-BELIEVE
✷World Building
✷Mise-En-Scéne
✷Original Films
✷Branded Films
✷Memory Architecting
WORLD BUILDING XKAT FOR ‘SILENT NOTES’ FEATURE LENGTH FILM
LET’S GET CREATIVE TOGETHER
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