Benjamin Kasulke

Benjamin Kasulke (Born May 30th, 1977 in Syracuse, New York) is an American film director and director of photography from Ray Brook, New York . He attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School and went on to study film production and still photography at Ithaca College and FAMU. He was the recipient of the Roy H. Park School of Communications Department of Cinema And Photography awards for Achievement in Junior Filmmaking and Achievement in Critical Film Theory in 1998 followed by departmental awards for Achievement in Art Direction, Best Senior Film, and the James B. Pendleton Grant in 1999.

He began his professional career working as a negative cutter and film archivist in Seattle, Washington. Kasulke began his shooting career working extensively with the dance film community in the Pacific Northwest and particularly attributes the start of his cinematography career to his work with the Seattle based performance group 33 Fainting Spells. Ben moved from photographing short films into shooting performance, documentary films, online web series, investigative news, and music videos.

In 2005, The Film Company hired Ben as the staff cinematographer, prompting a move into feature film production. His first feature film credit as Director of Photography was on Guy Maddin's Ben received the Kodak Vision Award at Slamdance Film Festival and the Best Cinematography Prize at the Torun Film Festival for his work on Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back in 2006. Other feature film credits include Linas Phillips' Walking To Werner, Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance, Erika Yeomans' Pose Down, Joe Swanberg's Nights And Weekends, and Adam Sekuler's Merely Mouthpiece'.

His Music video and performance credits include work with Einstürzende Neubauten, Built To Spill, Harvey Danger, The Lights, and Andrew Bird.

Ben was commissioned by Slamdance Film Festival to create a $99 Special Film, entitled Crustväska to premiere in 2008. In 2007 he was shortlisted by The Stranger, an alternative Seattle weekly, for its annual Genius Award in Film.

Ben Kasulke's third cousin thrice removed is cinematographer Sol Polito.

Director Of Photography Filmography

Feature Films

Nights And Weekends 2008
Merely Mouthpiece 2007
My Effortless Brilliance 2007
Pose Down 2006
Walking To Werner 2006
We Go Way Back 2006
2006

Web Series

What The Funny? 2007
Young American Bodies 2008

Short Films

Crustväska 2007
Achemy of The Oracles 2007
Gold 2007
Berlin 2007
Kisses 2007
Third Day's Child 2007
Holding This For You 2007
If & When 2006
Number 5ive 2006
The Down and Derby 2004
EBE-4 2004
To Wander 2004
Entry 2002
Tribute To Jean-Luc Godard 2002

Music Videos

Today Let Your Candle Burn All Night 2007
Andrew Bird Imitosis 2007
The Lights Setting Sun 2007
Harvey Danger Moral Centralia 2007

Director Filmography

Crustväska 2007
Sediment 1999
Torque 1998
 
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