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THE EDGE OF THE FLAT EARTH a film by abigail severance

WHAT DETERMINES A BORDER'S POSITION?

ITS GOAL?

PROTECT.
SEGREGATE.
IMPRESS.
DENY.
FORBID.

WHO DOES THE LABOR OF BORDER-BUILDING?

THE EDGE OF THE FLAT EARTH

is a film about the material experiences of the border, the work of border building, guarding and maintaining.

STORIES. BODIES. IDENTITIES.

Faltering infrastructure, resource conflicts and travel restrictions have made the world smaller. Surveillance is unseen but heard in rhythmic, familiar patterns both online and in the physical world. National identity offers safety and comfort, superseding personal autonomy, despite an idolatry for the individual.

A weary crew of laborers mends and inspects an endless border wall, a job they do each evening. But this night is unlike other nights.
There is a break in the wall.
It could be a trap. An accident. An opportunity.
The country on the other side is unknown. If they work all night, they could cross over.
Or be caught. Implicated.

How might borders be transfigured?

IMAGINATIVE.
DEVOTIONAL.
COLLABORATIVE.
FORGOTTEN.

THE EDGE OF THE FLAT EARTH takes its title from the Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s exquisite collection ELECTRIC LIGHT, a work that deftly travels from the observed to the remembered to the imaginative.

The body is material. The border is material.

But what weight they carry in the mind.

THE EDGE OF THE FLAT EARTH

written & directed by Abigail Severance

in collaboration with the Edge Ensemble

EDGE ENSEMBLE

Dahlia Nayar | Abriel Gardner | Ellody Wu | Henita Telo, James Vitz-Wong | Melanie Weingarten | Nicolas Savignano Lucy Kerr

PRODUCER | Jackii Chun

CO-PRODUCER | Lucy Kerr

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Ryan Daniel Browne

PRODUCTION DESIGNER | Tim Nicholas

abigailseverance@gmail.com

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