From The Director Of ‘The Mothman Prophecies’ Comes The Experimental Horror ‘The Severing’
Mark Pellington’s (“The Mothman Prophecies”) new viscerally explosive experimental feature film “The Severing,” which made its World Premiere at Slamdance, is set to make its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles as part of the American Cinematheque screening series on Sunday, February, 27th at 7pm at the Los Feliz 3 with a filmmaker Q&A to follow featuring director Mark Pellington (“The Mothman Prophecies”), choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s “Climax”) and composer Pete Adams. The Severing is a powerful experimental feature that offeres a cathartic movement piece that filmmaker Mark Pellington (“The Mothman Prophecies”) created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s “Climax”) and rising Dutch cinematographer Anna Aevelin Lawford. Inspired by the Wim Wenders film “Pina,” Pellington was interested in expressing feelings and emotions through a ‘story of movement and text’, rather than plot, capturing emotion and physicality on an experiential, non-linear visceral level. There is a story in this film, but it is abstract, and found in
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