Jennifer Reeves Collection 1992-2022 ( When It Was Blue / Girls Daydream about Hollywood / Configuration 20 / The Girl's Nervy / We Are Going Home / Fear of Blushing / Landfill 16 / Strawberries in the Summertime / Color Neutral / Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome )

Jennifer Reeves Collection 1992-2022 (Blu-Ray) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: When It Was Blue / Girls Daydream about Hollywood / Configuration 20 / The Girl's Nervy / We Are Going Home / Fear of Blushing / Landfill 16 / Strawberries in the Summertime / Color Neutral / Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1992-2022 and produced in:
Iceland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jennifer Todd Reeves

Synopsis:

When It Was Blue: When It Was Blue is a live, ephemeral film performance and an ode to a beautiful and unspoiled natural environment which is fast diminishing. When It Was Blue rejoices the splendor of the natural world through a complex and dazzling fusion of textural, abstract hand-painted images projected onto filmed landscapes from Iceland, New Zealand and Vancouver to Pyramid Lake, Nevada and upstate New York.16mm double-projected film and montage by Jennifer Reeves Music by Skúi Sverrisson with Anthony Burr & Ted Reichman. Girls Daydream about Hollywood: A fragmented psychic landscape where TV clips, bar talk, and rape loom close. Trying to reconstruct and resolve sexual abuse becomes a complex project of association and recall. Daydream has a thick, luminous feel. Configuration 20: Primordial sounds and organic creatures evoke the moment when life began. The Girl's Nervy: Sinewy fissures splinter the geometric confections and viscous pools of decaying nitrate are set dancing to the slightly warped sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Raymond Scott's big band jazz. We Are Going Home: Solarized, tinted, and optically-printed, this is a surreal portrait of desire, ghosts and pursuit of the sensual. Rhythmic color shifts in the emulsion bring life to the rural landscape, which seems to embody the terrain of the subconscious. Three women seek pleasure and the beyond in parallel universes, which never quite intersect. When one finds another, she is either buried in the sand or asleep under a tree. Made at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm, 1997. Fear of Blushing: Fear of Blushing bursts forth with irrepressible hand-painted color, corroded emulsion and a menacing soundscape of looped voices, distorted instrumentals, samples & rhythm. Fleeting visions and voices erupt out of the ominous abstraction in unusual juxtapositions, suggesting a cinematic free-association marked by anxiety, pleasure and shame. Best appreciated in the immediate; the 7200 painted frames fly by at an average of 12 per second. Landfill 16: Exhumed motion-pictures from my very own Elkhart, Indiana landfill constitute the canvas of this obsessively hand-painted film. This is my anti-landfill film, an attempt to transform 16mm out-takes into a meditation on nature's losing battle to decompose our relics of abandoned technologies and productions. Primal screams from the wilderness rise until they are buried in silence. Strawberries in the Summertime: A two and a half year old boy revels in all things tiny and huge on and around a farm. His father supports his exuberant and insatiable curiosity of new experiences, from wall climbing to discovering the natural world. As a father-son bond grows, the mother with camera observes, hangs back, dives into a solitary landscape and returns. The fleeting and glowing visual field evokes the delicate tension between distance and intimacy a mother can feel with her child. Richly toned black and white positive, negative and solarized images, combined with snippets of voice, suggest the texture of memory. Reeves shot and hand-processed Strawberries in the Summertime in rural Ontario at the Film Farm (Independent Imaging Retreat) run by filmmaker Philip Hoffman. Color Neutral: Anything but gray, a color explosion sparkles, bubbles, and fractures in this hand-crafted 16mm film. Reeves utilized an array of mediums and direct-on-film techniques to create this exuberant, psychedelic morsel of cinema as material. But it speaks of the end of one era or another, a time for letting go and celebration. Control triumphs over disorder. Ding, dong the witch is dead. Reeves mixed samples from rusty old dusty machines, records, and electric waves to create an aural passage through technological progress. Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome: A diagnosis of an eye disorder incited this meditation on fear and beauty. Glimpses of curious and creative souls peek out of countless hand-painted film frames. Infinite colors and textures burst, blend and challenge the primacy of uniform vision.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 February, 2026.