How To Outline Grief — kym mcdaniel

Video Still from "how to outline grief"

Elisabeth, a Korean-American dancer is turning, waist-deep in clear water. Her arms raised in the arm mid-spiral, her eyes are closed and her hair swirls with water and wind.

Video still from "how to outline grief"

Four hand-drawn white boxes spread out evenly in the center of the frame against dark, grainy purple background.

Video still from "how to outline grief"

A close up of Elisabeth, a Korean-American dancer, as she extends her palms out, an offering. Her head is bowed with her dark brown/black hair covering her face. An almost-white sea is behind her.

how to outline grief

Super 8/Video, 5:48min, 2023

Camera, Sound, Edit, Animation: Kym McDaniel

Choreography & Performance: Elisabeth Roskopf

Poem: Seoyi Jung

Animation Consult: Hannah Hamalian

Different water worlds - sea, snow, tears, bodies - collide as grief is poetically explored through movement and landscape.

Honors:

Best Film - Separation & Belonging, JÁ POETRY FILM COMPETITION - Lisboa, Portugal

Screenings:

Bloomsday Film Festival – Dublin, IE

Västerås Film Festival – Västmanland, SE

Poetry Film Festival – Venice, CA

Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico – San Juan, PR

Interlaced International Screendance Festival – Moscow, ID

REELpoetry International Festival – Houston, TX

Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, OH

RADFest (Regional Alternative Dance Festival) – Kalamazoo, MI

InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival – Lisboa, PRT

US Super 8 Film + DV Festival – New Brunswick, NJ

Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival – Wellington, NZ

Lights Dance Festival – Seattle, WA

Devine Feminine Film Festival – Long Island City, NY

Festival Fotogenia Vol. 5 – Mexico City, MX

International Portrait Film Festival – Sofia, BG

Frame x Frame Film Festival – Houston, TX

Exeter Dance Int’l Film Festival – Exeter, UK

WORLDTHREADING Film Festival – Copenhagen, DK

Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival – Copenhagen, DK

Cadence Video Poetry Festival – Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA

MicroActs Artist Film Screening – London, UK

enCore: Dance on Film – Decatur, GA

JÁ POETRY FILM COMPETITION – Lisboa, Portugal