Severny's films include Buried Seeds, Inside Risk: Shadows of Medellin, Gravitation: Variation in Time and Space, Condition, Teaching to See, Disparaît, v and Tom on Mars.

[8] In 2005, his short films Tom on Mars and Disparaît, v, screened at festivals in London, New York City, Barcelona, Milan,[9] Kolkata, and Avignon.

[13] Filmmaker Amir Naderi was the producer[14] and co-editor of Severny's feature film Condition, which tells the story of a doctor and patient escaping a catastrophe looking for salvation in nature and sound.

[17]In 2013 Severny also started to develop a feature-length sci-fi film called Zona del Silencio: a story about a journalist who gets involved in a series of mysterious events that parallel with his dangerous love affair – to be shot in Spanish on location in Mexico.

[20][21] In 2016 Severny co-directed and edited an interactive documentary Inside Risk: Shadows of Medellin, based on a true story of kidnapping that took place in Colombia in 1986.

[31] Severny also curates an art salon, PlayGround,[32] that he founded in 2009, selecting some of the most creative professionals who show their work on a large screen or perform live.

His guests have included Doug Fitch, Paul Lewis, Miru Kim, Asa Mader, Tristan Perich, Niloufar Talebi, Aurélia Thiérrée, Malika Zarra, Clarina Bezzola, Vicky Colombet, Edouard Getaz and Ji Lee.