Mark Pellington’s The Severing is described as a “cathartic dance movement piece” film created in collaboration with choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climaax) and Dutch cinematographer Evelin Rei.
The film which world premiered at Slamdance Film Festival and was an official selection of Downtown LA Film Festival, screens March 31 in NYC at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan and April 6 in LA at Brain Dead Studios, followed by a dance performance by Nina McNeely. Mark Pellington will be in attendance for Q&A for both screenings.
The Severing from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies) is a visceral and powerful feature-length dance film. Inspired by the Wim Wenders film Pina, Pellington was interested in expressing feelings and emotions through a ‘narrative of movement and text,’ told through the physical expression of dancers’ bodies and souls. Grief is physical and lies in the body, in our very DNA, which makes movement the ideal way to communicate it.
In Pellington’s words, “It’s the way to express what it feels like to be severed or to feel nothing. The film is a cathartic reencounter for anybody who’s felt loss, or isolation, or struggled with these themes: fear, reconnection, isolation.”
Watch the trailer for The Severing.
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