Jackie Kosmacki
Filmmaker
PERFECT MARKS
Summer 2025 (in post)
An art appraiser’s friendship with an artist turns criminal when she helps sell the artist's forged paintings. As it starts to turn romantic as well, conflict with the artist's girlfriend jeopardizes the grift just as they go for the big score.
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Runtime: 18 minutes
"CALL YOUR NAME"
music video
Summer 2025 (in post)
A spec music video for the tora-i song, "Call Your Name", built around the relationship between one woman and two friends, one of whom becomes her lover, and the other of whom steals him. The video explores romance, friendship, and betrayal, going into the courtship of the two romances as well as into the painful dissolution of the friendship dynamic that once brought them all together.
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Runtime: 4 minutes
in the light of a late stage crisis
Spring 2021
A silent exploration of the relationship between light, space, and the individual's experience of the perception of time. Set against the backdrop of pandemic-era Virginia, the film meditates on the natural world's relationship to the constructed world as climate change alters the planet.
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Runtime: 5 minutes
Memories of an Owl
Fall 2020
A delusional young writer sets out to win a novel competition with his newest novel and finds himself over his head in a bizarre world of paranoia, delirium, and talking pigs, writing a novel about a sadistic musician who tortures people for his new record. This psychodrama is by far the most ambitious piece that I have attempted. Based on a script I wrote in July 2018, this film took six months to shoot and spent a year in post-production. It centers on an examination of cultural obsession with fame and the archetype of the suffering artist.
Runtime: 97 minutes
Old Town
Fall 2017
A high school senior wakes up on a bench in the morning with questions of how he got there, what happened the night before, and what kind of person he is. It is a young man's search for guidance, purpose, and identity in a town secure in its own old-fashioned identity.
Runtime: 80 minutes
Maizie and Delilah
May 2016
This is one of his earlier works from high school, one of the few scripts he has directed that he did not write. It is a story of one girl's crush on another, and her attempts to get this girl's attention. Though it is somewhat technically unrefined, it is a sweet story and an example of a small crew of filmmakers attempting to tell an emotional story just beyond the range of their limitations.
Runtime: 5 minutes
OPEN
Fall 2015
This continues to be a controversial piece with mixed reviews. This was a very short piece done for a shorts competition focused on editing. This experiment was focused on an expressionistic use of lighting and an emphasis on camera movement over cutting. The story itself is more of a tongue-in-cheek B-movie plot about slackers and drug debts.
Runtime: 1 minute