ABIGAIL SEVERANCE
JENNY MI AMOR
experimental fiction | 8 min | 2012 | color, HD & Super16mm
Jenny is dressed in feathers and on the run. In her wake, seven people try to craft a portrait of a mysterious being, but instead recount a story of loss and longing. Jenny is everyone and no one all at once.
Jenny Mi Amor is an improvised narrative portrait. In a sense, it is only semi-fictional. The seven testaments about Jenny were developed collaboratively with the actors, most of whom are filmmakers, dancers, artists or musicians. Often using their own stories as our point of entry, we crafted a portrait less of Jenny and more of the loss, frustration and fantasy they experienced at her imagined departure. To amplify the experiment with open versus closed narratives, the interviews were shot on HD while Jenny’s preparations for flight are super-16mm. The two narratives separate and Jenny’s story carries a fragile, archived quality.
COLLABORATORS
cast > Jen DM, Heather Acs, Kate Gilbert, Guillaume Legrand, Sharon Greene,
Silas Howard, Carlos Marques Marcet, Aaron Murtagh
writer/director > Abigail Severance
director of photography > Julie Kirkwood
editors > Karen Smalley + Abigail Severance
sound design > Kadet Kuhne
sound mix > Craig Smith
music > Evangelista / Carla Bozulich
add’l dialogue > Sharon Greene, Carlos Marques Marcet
add’l photography > Norbert Shieh
assistant camera > Britt Ringer, Rachel James
gaffer > Christian Bruno
sound rec > Andrew Ahn, Mariah Garnett, Logan Kibens, Visperd Madad-Doust
costume > Charlotte Woods
set dresser > Roxy Campos
production assistant > Fabian Munz
post production > Ki Jin Kim & J.R. Hughto
SCREENINGS
Antimatter, Vancouver
Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro
Mezipatra, Czech Republic
Outfest, Los Angeles
Frameline, San Francisco
Image + Nation, Montreal
Austin LBGT Film Festival
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Houston Queer Fest
Tampa LBGT Film Festival
Boston LBGT Film Festival
Czech Television, Mezipatra program