Abduction: a form of logical inference that goes from observation to a hypothesis that accounts for the reliable data (observation) and seeks to explain relevant evidence. The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce first introduced the term as "guessing." (Wikipedia)

Part of a series of investigations into alien subjectivities, the inner lives of objects, and mysterious events. A single floating shot reveals a room waiting for interpretation.

Press

"My tastes gravitate toward the program’s more personal, experimental, and oddball stuff…Chicago filmmaker Kera MacKenzie’s intriguing single-moving-shot through a room of unusual objects." — Peter Lucas, Glasstire

"#6: Tiny Moments: Abductive Object #4" — from the 2014 World Poll, Josh B. Mabe, Senses of Cinema

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Credits

Direction/Set/Sound: Kera MacKenzie

Camera: Andrew Mausert-Mooney

Screening History

2019
In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, La lumière collective, Montréal QC

In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Cellular Cinema, the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis MN

LA Filmforum presents And Magics: The films of Josh B Mabe, and his Chicago favorites, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA

2018
In the Body's Tow: short works by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Microlights, Milwaukee WI

L'expérimental est déjà commencé?, Traverse Vidéo, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2016
Past Lives, UnionDocs, Brooklyn NY

2015
P.3+ at Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond LA

2014
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX

Shorts Program 3: Negate Sin, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL

Ready, The Nightingale at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

2013
Video Playlist: Gravitational Pull, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL

Body Doubles, Gallery 400, Chicago IL

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