Jennifer Reeves

Jennifer Todd Reeves

Background Reeves's 16 mm films are often experimental and deal with a range of issues, including mental health, politics, sexuality, feminism and the environment. Reeves began making her own films in 1990 where she became passionate about analog media and foreign films. Her time at Bard College exposed her to avant-garde films and the works of Carolee Schneemann, from which Reeves's own works draw inspiration. Consequently, many of Reeves's films employ elements of abstraction, nostalgia, and projection. Thematically, her films tend to deal with a wide variety of issues, from sexuality and feminism to the environment and politics.

Work The award-winning In the aftermath of making When It Was Blue, Reeves found herself in possession of a large amount of 16mm film containing outtakes from the project. Concerned with her work's impact on the environment, she temporarily let the footage decompose in a landfill, then salvaged and hand-painted the resulting film. The project was titled Landfill 16, and through its repurposing of the film, the work draws connections to nature's losing battle to decompose the waste we produce. Chronic (1996) We Are Going Home (1998) Strawberries in the Summertime (2013) Color Neutral (2014)