The Woman With The Severed Side
The Woman with the Severed Side (2005) is a 16 minute film shot on black and white Super 8. I have also shown a loop from this film as an installation piece entitled A Stitch In Time Saves Nine... But Love is Already Too Late (2010) (see photos below).
CAST & CREW
Written, directed & edited by Jayne Amara Ross
With Olga Zekova
Original Soundtrack by David Roocroft
Cinematography: Jayne Amara Ross
SYNOPSIS
A study of the physicality of pain. A waggish nod to the FatherFang of German horror, the woman drag queen.
‘In The Woman with the Severed Side, pain irrupts into the frame, along with desire and solitude, all these seasons that the female body must surrender to. It is hard not to notice Jayne Amara Ross’ incredible skill here, the young filmmaker’s strict use of celluloid and hands-on techniques betraying an esthetic rigour that is rare and admirable in an artist of her age.’
Gabriela Trujillo (Culturopoing, June 2011)
CAST & CREW
Written, directed & edited by Jayne Amara Ross
With Olga Zekova
Original Soundtrack by David Roocroft
Cinematography: Jayne Amara Ross
SYNOPSIS
A study of the physicality of pain. A waggish nod to the FatherFang of German horror, the woman drag queen.
‘In The Woman with the Severed Side, pain irrupts into the frame, along with desire and solitude, all these seasons that the female body must surrender to. It is hard not to notice Jayne Amara Ross’ incredible skill here, the young filmmaker’s strict use of celluloid and hands-on techniques betraying an esthetic rigour that is rare and admirable in an artist of her age.’
Gabriela Trujillo (Culturopoing, June 2011)
PAST & UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Festival Jeune Création, 104, Paris, France, November 2012 (installation)
FIAG at La Gare aux Gorilles, Paris, France, October 2010 (installation)
La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France, July 2010
Filmonik, Manchester, UK, 2006
