Streaming October 14 on Amazon Prime and iTunes!
A covert Cold War-era military camp in Greenland unearthed 400,000-year-old plant remains from deep under the ice sheet – stunning evidence the region was once ice-free.
Matt Haimovitz (cello) performs Thomas de Hartmann: La Kobsa 1 Assez lent - released on EP on 28th August 2025.
With La Kobsa, cellist Matt Haimovitz offers a deeply personal tribute to Ukraine and its people through the music of Ukrainian-born composer Thomas de Hartmann.
Loose Horses is a feature-length documentary about horses caught up in the sociopolitical effects of commercial trade. Loose Horses explores the purgatory of a horse auction, capturing the genuine grit of the livestock market subculture and the complicated human-equine connection in the American West. Rather than an activist film, Loose Horses takes a sensory-vérité style immersing the viewer and fostering critical dialogue. (2016)
An international team of scientists explores a subglacial lake buried 3,600 feet beneath the Antarctic ice to reveal hidden truths about our planet’s dynamic past. As they struggle against the ferocity of the ice and wind, they consider how our relationship with nature – and with one another — will impact humanity’s future and the future of all life on our rapidly changing planet. Streaming on Amazon, Curiosity Stream, iTunes, and more. (2023)
A feature-length documentary film about the startling discovery of the dark microbial forest melting the Greenland Ice Sheet far faster than any models predict, and the Arctic scientists witnessing it.
The film is framed by the remote and perilous research high on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where rivers of melt water carve deep cracks in the ice and plunge into mile-deep holes dropping to the floor of the ice sheet.
In Post-Production (2026).
The Gardener is a sensory vérité documentary about the creative process of a pianist and composer, Julien Brocal.
Selected Screenings:
Best Documentary, Fine Arts Film Festival, in Venice, CA Portland Art Museum Screening and Panel, “An Evening with Kathy Kasic” Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival Online, Screening Bogotá Music Video Festival, Screening
The Earthshot Prize is intended to look forward to solutions for a brighter future on Planet Earth. Joined by Sir David Attenborough, Prince William investigates the five missions of the award and introduces the finalists for its first ever year.
Kathy Kasic was a field director for four stories in the Earthshot series.
Streaming on Amazon Prime, Discovery+ and BBC
The Enter the Wind is an experimental film that takes the perspective of a dreaming Absáalooke poet, Montana’s Poet Laureate, Henry Real Bird. The wind blows across a landscape, a domino effect on the Earth. One culture's hardship affects many cultures in succession.
KING ROPES' cover of the song Girls Like Us, written by Mike Ferrio and originally recorded by his band, Tandy, released on the To a Friend, 2004. KING ROPES is an indie rock band roughly based in Bozeman, Montana.
A short documentary that features a musical collaboration between internationally acclaimed pianist Julien Brocal and 13-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer Richard King.
A poetic film about an otherworldly place where large, man-made sculptures reach up to the stars in an effort to find meaning in life and where the music captures light from our own star, sending it across the landscape, and back out to the stars.
This landmark Yellowstone documentary series follows the intertwining stories of the National Park’s iconic inhabitants: the grey wolf, the grizzly bear and herds of antelope and buffalo. The dramatic fortunes of these animals are inexorably bound together. (2009)
Kathy Kasic was Producer of two of the Yellowstone People programs / Assistant Producer for the series.
Renowned ocean explorer Robert Ballard and the Nautilus ship will lead a team of scientists on a daring deep-sea expedition to the most active submarine faults and volcanoes along the perimeter of the Caribbean plate. These dangerous hot-spots also support some of the richest and most bizarre biological communities on our planet – alien-looking creatures that can survive in total darkness miles beneath the sea. (2014)
Kathy Kasic was a cinematographer aboard the Nautilus.
We know more about the surface of Mars than we know about Subglacial Antarctica. Watch this short documentary about the life hidden 3600 feet down in a subglacial lake in Antarctica. (2021)
GLACINE, a poetic ice film, A requiem for the ice. (2025)
This film underscores the importance of healthy rivers and streams in the arid West. Told through the wisdom of four people: two ranchers, a biologist and an environmental lawyer, this film tells the story of a rancher who, after 70 years, restored water to the stream that feeds his ranch. (2007)
A portrait of Montana’s poet laureate and Crow Native American, Henry Real Bird.
A live cinema performance of an experimental film about life in misalignment.
Framing Fire follows an international group of scientists as they study the effect of thousands of years of wildfires on the fragile ecosystems of Patagonia.
A short documentary about the perils of using Rotenone to kill fish in streams and rivers.
A poetic and musical evocation of the inevitability of time, inspired by W.H. Auden’s poem “As I Walked Out One Evening.”
A tranquil contemplation of Mark di Suvero’s sculpture, Beethoven’s Quartet, on display at Tippet Rise Art Center.
A lyrical-performative film, based on Alexander Calder’s fascination with the universe, using space imagery from NASA projected on onto his sculpture, The Stainless Stealer.
Samuel A. Ward: America the Beautiful Improvisation performed by Jeffrey Kahane at Tippet Rise Art Center (informally known as “The Storm King of the West”) in The Olivier Music Barn, August 11, 2017.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19, mvt. 3: Andante
Performed by Zuill Bailey (cello) and Natasha Paremski (piano) at Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, August 19, 2017
Frédéric Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 3 Performed by Jenny Chen Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, July 21, 2017
Languid chords and flickering shadows intertwine with the twists in Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture, Daydreams. In the ebb and flow of an afternoon, image and sound meet, tangle, diverge, and eventually drift off.
"Magical Floating Eye" is a song off King Ropes' 2021 album Way Out West. Music Video by Kathy Kasic
The Montana base band KING ROPES perches uneasily between Indie, Desert Rock, and ragged Americana.
Nikolai Medtner: Sonata Tragica in C minor, Op. 39, No. 5, from “Forgotten Melodies”
Performed by Yevgeny Sudbin Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, July 7, 2017
Film Director: Kathy Kasic Cinematographers: Sarah Lanier, Dandan Liu, Emily Rund Lighting Designer: Zach Hamersley Editor: Claude DeMoss Assistant Editor: Evangeline Koonce Music Consultant: Devanney Haruta Sound Recording: Monica Bolles, Monte Nickles Sound Editor: Joe Shepard Sound Mastering: Dominick Maita
Mike Toia is a piano tuner extraordinaire, keeping famed pianos tuned to the sharpest of ears daily. Mike shares his process, his philosophy and the harmonies of his work.
In the glow of the Montana sunset, the Ariel String Quartet plays Brahms on The Domo sculpture at Tippet Rise Art Center, a 10,000 sculpture and music performance center, informally known as “The Storm King of the West”.
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, op. 51, No. 2, mvt. 1.
Inside of Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture, Daydreams, Matt Haimovitz muses on Bach, his love of the cello, and the magic of music.
Cello Suite No. 5, prelude composed by J.S. Bach performed by Matt Haimovitz
Insights into personal performance techniques from pianist Alessandro Deljavan during his residency at Tippet Rise where he recorded the album “Liszt Deljavan.”
Cellist Matt Haimovitz performs Aaron Jay Kernis’ First Club Date Movement 4
The manager of the Pitchfork Ranch in Wyoming talks trout and conservation of rivers.
A documentary short about the climate change science in a lake 3600 feet beneath the ice in Antarctica.
It’s easy to overlook small tributary creeks, but they play a big role in ensuring river health—and fishing opportunities. In this video, Lyndy Caine of Firehole Ranch in Montana speaks about her collaboration with Trout Unlimited to preserve healthy flows and habitat in Watkins Creek, which serves as a wild trout nursery for Hebgen Lake.
An essay film about the Yellowstone River told by a man who swims with fish.
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