Faiza Kracheni (she/her) was born and raised in East Austin, Texas, in a house full of women. She went to her first punk show at fourteen, picked up a Super 8 camera at sixteen, and went on her first tour at eighteen. A terrible student, she taught herself the basics, then began breaking the rules of film until they made sense in her own head. She’s drawn to the tactile process of motion picture film. She often develops her own film by hand, and sometimes paints and scratches it too. Her films are often paired with her own words and music. A touring musician for nearly two decades, she is one half of the electronic duo Flesh of Morning.

Her films have been projected onto a historic water intake facility on Lady Bird Lake, screened before cult classics at the Paramount Theatre and Soho House, shown with UNESCO Creative Cities in Slovakia and Portugal, and installed at the George Washington Carver Museum.

Her recent films turn toward the body. In September 2025, at thirty-seven, she was diagnosed with stage IIIB ovarian cancer, and she has been filming, almost obsessively, ever since.