ABIGAIL SEVERANCE
SCREENINGS
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Antimatter, Victoria, B.C.
Outsider Arts Festival, Austin
Structuring Strategies, CalArts
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn (as work in progress)
Feral Studio, Joshua Tree (as work in progress)
KINESTHESIA SERIES
experimental | 16mm finished to hd | 2014
Kinesthesia Series is a fetish exercise in visual motion, repetition and the wily experience of time and memory. Made for abstract rhythmic and existential pleasure, it consists of short interludes between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long that are shot on 16mm, tightly edited, sound designed and finished digitally. The result is a hypnotic fluctuation between abstraction and documentation.
“A powerful departure for Abigail Severance, Kinesthesia Series is a play of
semi-abstracted movement and light that is reminiscent of films by Baillie, Menken and Brakhage, but achieved here through a subtle blending of film and digital with the filmmaker’s strong feel for rhythm and a play of forms.”
-- Steve Anker, RedCat
COLLABORATORS
cinematography/edit/sound design > Abigail Severance
sound mix > Craig Smith
thanks > Steak House, Bill Basquin, Melinda Stone