Mark Pellington

Screendance, defined as danceworks designed specifically to be performed for and recorded by the camera, this is a compelling niche field, but for its admirers, when it is done well it is nothing less than captivating. Mark Pellington’s The Severing is such a film, digging into the visceral muck of screendance’s full potential and pulling out from its guts something kinetic, mucky, emotive, poetic and very, very powerful.