Bio
Jennifer Reeves has made 25+ film-works since 1990; from avant-garde shorts to expanded cinema performances and experimental features. Reeves’ work has shown extensively from the Berlin, Toronto, and Hong Kong Film Festivals to the Museum of Modern Art, universities, and microcinemas worldwide. Reeves’ acclaimed visceral and personal works immerse viewers in intricate, unfamiliar cinematic territory. Her work elucidates themes of mental health, feminism and sexuality and the natural world.
Reeves' latest film PIGMENT-DISPERSION SYNDROME is making the festival rounds since the world premiere at Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival in July 2022. The film recently received a Director’s Choice award from The Thomas Edison Film Festival. Reeves currently has two long form films in the works. Atelier 105, in Paris, just awarded a post-production residency to Reeve’s in-progress THE GLORIA OF YOUR IMAGINATION, a dual projection performance film (16mm and digital). YANQUIS GO SOUTH, supported by a Princess Grace Awards Special Project grant, is next in line for completion.
Reeves started making films in 1990. She continues to do her own writing, cinematography, editing, and sound design. Her subjective and personal films push the boundaries of film through optical-printing and direct-on-film techniques.
Since 2003 Reeves has collaborated with celebrated composers/ performers, including Marc Ribot, Skúli Sverrisson, Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Anthony Burr and Eyvind Kang. As the daughter of a trumpeter, gravitating toward film and music collaborations was quite natural for Reeves. Her most ambitious film and music performance, the feature-length double-projection WHEN IT WAS BLUE (2008), premiered at Toronto International Film Festival with live music by composer/collaborator Skúli Sverrisson. Her multiple-projection films with live music have been performed internationally, from the Sydney Opera House and the Berlinale to RedCat in Los Angeles and the Wexner Center in Ohio.
Reeves has taught film and animation courses at The Cooper Union School of Art since 2005.
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