2026 · In progress
All My Hair in the Morning Light
“softly, I was mutating”
2026 · Black-and-white Super 8, hand-developed, painted, and scratched · Single channel
Everything I Loved Was Already Changing
Everything I Loved Was Already Changing traces a solitary return to the East Austin neighborhood where Kracheni grew up. Familiar street corners carry her back to childhood, even as she walks through them as if seeing them for the first time. Working with the film by hand, she considers what it means to belong to a place that has changed so profoundly, and to recognize that she, too, has shed a version of herself. The film holds the distance between what remains, what disappears, and what memory allows us to inhabit.
“there was a time i wanted to be anywhere but here”
2026 · Color negative and reversal Super 8 · Single channel, with original text by the artist
If I Die
If I Die was made over a summer of travel through rural New England and along the Oregon coast, six months after chemotherapy. The work explores what death feels like once it has come near, and what it means to live inside moments as they are already becoming memories.
Shooting on Super 8 is a tactile act. Each frame is light burned into celluloid, a physical trace that cannot be undone. Kracheni works in color negative and reversal stocks, moving between the image as it was lived and its inverse. Where memory fades and shifts, film holds. To expose a frame is to insist that this moment happened and will outlast the body that witnessed it.
“how strange to miss something that hasn’t happened yet”
2025 · Color negative and reversal Super 8 · Single channel, with original text by the artist
I’m Still Here
I’m Still Here is a meditation on time and place during a medical crisis. Shot on color negative Super 8, the work was edited while Kracheni awaited MRI and CT results to determine whether a grapefruit-sized tumor discovered in her abdomen was cancerous. In this suspended time, familiar images take on the weight of an uncertain future. The work considers how the possibility of illness alters our relationship to what surrounds us. A place can remain unchanged while our sense of being within it shifts.
2022 · Super 8, hand-developed and digitized by the artist, with archival footage and field recordings · A collaboration with Mišo Hudák
BORN & RAISED
BORN & RAISED explores gentrification and cultural erasure in a redlined city whose rapid growth is creating its own urban decay. It sets that against Košice, where Hudák was also born and raised. Working oceans apart and across a language barrier, the two artists looked at each other’s realities as if through binoculars: Hudák through archival footage, Kracheni through real-time footage shot on analog film. Her sound recordings capture the inner city as construction and demolition happened around her.
