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Kym McDaniel (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker, media collaborator, choreographer, and performer. Her films have shown at Slamdance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ADF’s Movies by Movers, and selected exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others.

She began filmmaking after a head injury and resulting chronic illnesses forced her to reconsider her relationship to dance and the body. Her process is influenced by her studies in dance and psychology. Disability and queer movement practices inform her gaze and current practice as a filmmaker, teacher, and mover. She is an AmSAT trained Alexander Technique teacher with a special interest in hypermobility and trauma.

She has an MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently an Assistant Professor in Cinema at Binghamton University. She is an Advanced Certificate in Disabilities Studies candidate at the City University of New York.

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Exit Strategies from Kym McDaniel on Vimeo.

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birds- Exit Strategy #2 (2017) // Two telephone poles at sunset, birds are mid-flight from the wires. The sky is a dark blue with a yellow sunset in the distance.
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journal overlaid legs- Exit Strategy #5 (2020) // A composite of two images- the first shows two white legs on a bed. There is hair on the top of the frame, but we don't see a head or other limbs. The other photo is of journals spread out on a wood floor. The two photos are overlaid on top of one another, it is difficult to tell where the two images meet or combine. The journals become a part of the legs.
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ink on fingers- a story that doesn't have to do with me (work in progress) // A white woman is journaling with her left hand and her pen has exploded. Her fingers are suspended above the page, surprised to see the ink blot formed on her middle finger.
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Super 8 film- a story that doesn't have to do with me (work in progress) // A close up of a white woman with her elbow tucked underneath her head. The image is shot using black and white Super 8 film. She faces the camera but looks below the camera, at something out of frame. Her mouth is in a thin line, she looks almost sad.
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