A dense, green forest filled with tall trees covered in ivy and moss. The light filtering through the trees creates a spectrum of greens and shadows with ferns and fallen leaves covering the forest floor. A large tree stands prominently in the center of the photo. From either side of the trunk, a pair of human arms extend outward, palms open. The rest of the body and face are completely hidden, making the arms almsot disembodied. Video still taken in Cork, Ireland.
Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across fields of moving image, choreography, and disability studies. Her embodiment as a dancer living with chronic pain informs her relationship to time, the body, and movement in her work.
Her research is rooted in feminist, Crip, and queer addresses to the self and culture. She has recently screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance, Antimatter, ICDOCS, The Whitney Humanities Center, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, and at UnionDocs, among others.
She has an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an Advanced Certificate in Disability Studies from the City University of New York.
She and Lemon (her cat) live in Ohio. She teaches film/video as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.