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JENNIFER TODD REEVES
Adjunct Instructor
Film still from "The Time We Killed," 16mm, 94 min.,
2004
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Jennifer Reeves was born in Colombo, Ceylon, and is a New York-based filmmaker. Her work has been shown internationally, from the Berlin, New York, Rotterdam and Sundance film festivals to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Seoul Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Korea. Her debut experimental narrative feature, The Time We Killed, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2004 where it won a FIPRESCI prize. It won Best New York Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award at OUTFEST in Los Angeles.
Reeves' films incorporate optical printing and direct-on-film techniques and explore a range of topics, including mental health and recovery, women's sexuality, poetry, dogs, free association and politics. In 2003 Reeves began doing live multiple projection film/music performances as an extension to her work as a "single-strand" filmmaker. Recently she performed the double-projection short, He Walked Away, at the Toronto International Film Festival with musicians Erik Hoversten and Dave Cerf, and presented film performances with musicians Skúli Sverrisson and Hilmar Jensson at Tonic in New York and the City Theater in Reykjavik. Reeves performed the full-length double-16mm film, When it was Blue, with live original music by Skúli Sverrisson with Anthony Burr and Ted Reichman, at the Museum of Modern Art in January 2005. She recently received support from both the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Experimental Television Center to edit and finish When it was Blue.
Reeves founded Sparky Pictures, Inc., a production company, in 2004. She has a MFA from University of California/San Diego, and is a Visiting Professor in film at Bard College and a Visiting Artist at the Cooper Union School of Art in Fall 2005.
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