Jennifer Reeves Film

Tomorrow is the day! I’ll be presenting THE GLORIA OF YOUR IMAGINATION and selected shorts — FEAR OF BLUSHING and COLOR NEUTRAL — at the Rubicon Cinema in my ‘hometown’ of Akron, Ohio!

Saturday, May 9, at 8:30 pm
$10 suggested donation, BYO beverages and snacks — there will be a lot to chew on in these films.

I’m so excited to see many old acquaintances, pals, and new strangers.

Next tuesday, April 21st, at Light Industry (Brooklyn, NY) at 7:00 p.m. I will be performing WHEN IT WAS BLUE on two 16mm projectors. It is a special treat to share this analogue performance in light of the newly digitized copy of the work. Many thanks to Ed and Thomas of Light Industry for opening the space to the piece.

Here’s an excerpt of their screening notes,

“An expanded cinema epic, Jennifer Reeves’s When It Was Blue consists of two 16mm reels projected by the artist atop one another on a single screen, each unfurling a contrapuntal stream of images captured from the landscapes of the Americas, Iceland, and New Zealand. Always on the move, Reeves’s film flits through an ever-changing world of sun-struck treetops, billowing hills, collapsing glaciers, and efflorescent lava, with fleeting portraits of owls, seafowl, snakes, and the occasional human. Black-and-white images, high-contrast to the point of abstraction, share the screen with frames covered in thick, biomorphic swaths of blue, ocher, green, or red. The montage is quick and palpitant, finessed throughout by Reeves’s live manipulations of the projector, the whole accompanied by a score from composer Skúli Sverrisson, which commingles with field recordings on the film’s optical track. Her dyadic projection suggests a strange tactility, and a flickering, phantom depth […] When it first premiered, When It Was Blue felt like an elegy; these days it echoes like a war song.”

Link to the event here: https://www.lightindustry.org/whenitwasblue