CAT TASSINI
Born 1988, Brielle, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2027 | (Expected Graduation) Media Studies MA | The New School, New York, NY
2010 | Theater BFA, Art History Minor | New York University, New York, NY
SOLO SCREENINGS
2021 | Our Wicked Lady, Brooklyn, NY | The Broadcast Broadcast: Total Broadcast Live
2020 | Our Wicked Lady, Brooklyn, NY | The Broadcast Broadcast II: The Working Title
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 | Stone Circle Theatre, Ridgewood, NY | Ridgewood Off Kilter Film Festival |
Uncanny Monsters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Blade Runner
2026 | Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY | “Chariot Year” Music Video Release | Is It Easy
2026 | Tiny Arts Supply, Ridgewood, NY | Earth Freak | Earthly Ephemera
2025 | LeMay, Brooklyn, NY | Pollen: Video Spells | Is It Easy
2025 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Sofia World Film Festival | Is It Easy
2024 | Stone Circle Theatre, Ridgewood, NY | Ridgewood Off Kilter Film Festival |
Echo’s Answer
2023 | Brooklyn, NY | NonFilms’ DarkRoom | Echo’s Answer
2022 | Brooklyn, NY | Art of Brooklyn Film Festival | Echo’s Answer
2020 | No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM and Online | Femme Fatalism, Media Monsters |
Gemini
2020 | Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY | Winter Wonderland | Krampus
2020 | Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY | Ghoul-A-Rama | Sleepwalking
2020 | Portland, OR | OUTStream Film Fest | dear queer quarantine diary…
2020 | The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | Can you see the water now? | Herbal Witch Den
2020 | Online | Otherworldly Visions, Media Monsters | Sleepwalking
2020 | Online | MMTV, Media Monsters | KC Zombie
2019 | Knockdown Center, Queens, NY | Elements: Warehouse of Horrors | Herbal Witch Den
2018 | SXSW Film & TV Festival & Conference, Austin, TX | Community Works Showcase |
Gemini
2017 | Leona Gallery, Austin, TX | My Lovely Lady Lumps | Gemini
2013 | Brooklyn, NY | Bushwick Film Festival | Sleepwalking
2012 | Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY | My Fifth Birthday Party | Frederick
2012 | New York, NY | The Dark Night Festival of New Work | nothingtouching
2012 | Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA | DigitalArt.LA International Expo |
noise
2009 | DUOC, Santiago, Chile | Aquarius
2008 | Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY | The Hunted Enchanters
PUBLICATIONS
Tassini, Cat. “Swords into Ploughshares: The Feedback Loops of Audio Technology.” LCD,
WFMU, no. 31, Summer 2026.
Tassini, Cat. “Broadcast.” One Week One Band, 2016.
https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/broadcast/chrono
Tassini, Cat. “Why Does the Cut-Off Head Smile? Disembodied Heads in Symbolist Art.
Consortium Journal, 2010.
Cited in Ian Conrich and Laura Sedgwick, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2017.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Sinha Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies, The New School, 2026–27
AWARDS
2022 Outstanding Sound, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Queering the Quarantine Challenge Winner, OUTstream Film Festival, online
FILMOGRAPHY
2026
Uncanny Monsters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Blade Runner
2024
Is It Easy (music video for Grandma, co-directed with Leslie Hong)
2023
Le Petit Prince
2021
Echo’s Answer
The Broadcast Broadcast: Total Broadcast Live (livestream)
2020
The Broadcast Broadcast II: The Working Title (livestream)
The Broadcast Broadcast (livestream)
2020
dear queer quarantine diary…
2017
Gemini
Cage Match: Round One
2015
Dreamsicle
2014
KC Zombie (music video for Wildcat Apollo, co-directed with Nicholas Santos)
2013
No. 6 (music video for Wildcat Apollo)
Sleepwalking (music video for Wildcat Apollo)
2012
noise (co-directed with Norberto Briceño)