Genres: experimental

  • Working Portraits

    A document in the form of a portrait. Shot in June 2000 at Philip Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat in Mount Forest, Ontario, this films stays close to the participants and the film medium itself as they work on their projects. With Becka Barker, Helen Hill, Deirdre Logue, Kelly Krotine, Alexis Rubenstein (1975-2002) and Karyn Sandlos. Thanks to Phil Hoffman, Sabastjan Henrickson of Niagara Custom Lab in Toronto, and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. “Process must not be viewed as a goal or an end in itself, nor must it be confused with an infinite perpetuation of itself.” –…

  • Fly

    Traces of birds become calligraphy. Handmade filmmaking creates impressions of flying. York University Award for Best Student Film, Images Festival, Toronto, 2005

  • Element of Light

    Inspired by the elements of nature on a journey through light and sound. Painted directly onto the film and accompanied by scratched optical sounds. A stream-of-consciousness motion painting. “A work of pure delight. A master of scratch animation, Reeves extends the tradition of visual music first explored in Canada by Norman McLaren. This is sublime work of cinematic dexterity.” – Philip Hoffman (Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, 2005)

  • Made in Japan

    Made in Japan (2.5 min.,1985): North American portrayals of Japan perpetuate the myths of Americanized culture, distorting and misrepresenting traditional values. Part of the triptych “Three Short Films.”

  • Boy

    The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son. Image description: A blurry and rain-soaked streetscape as viewed through a car windshield.

  • Better Fate than Never

    “Better Fate Than Never” is intended to be an experimental and humorous look at the possibility of changing one’s fate. I am interested in undoing the everyday “accidents” that can change the course of one’s day – I am talking about the mishaps that ruin my otherwise perfectly timed mornings. Using found footage from Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie, Samantha and Jeanie help me to overcome the challenges of getting out the door. Originally made as part of the Command Z residency with Charles Street Video and the Images Festival.

  • Colonnade

    “Colonnade” is a visual essay on architecture and movement. Sparsely shot in black and white, the film seeks to capture both the perception of moving through space and feeling associated with space as the viewer is transported through a series of colonnades. The centrepiece of the film is the colonnade of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. This ramped colonnade, designed by Moshe Safdie and built in 1988, is an architectural splendour that leads the patron on a procession that is itself both ritual and ceremony, filled with exhilaration and anticipation. Available on VHS only.

  • Lasso

    My meditation on the romance of the “Wild West” – pure spatial motion. – and – Exploring the virtual potential of the horizon line while framing that spatial experience. “All landscapes can be described as hills and valleys, and time is said to flow. But geographically speaking, hills and valleys are maxima and minima whose definition presupposes the choice of gravitational vector. Such that the reading of a landscape, in a relation not to extrema but to inflections, leads us towards an experience of weightlessness.” – Bernard Cache, “Terre Meuble”

  • Car Culture

    Shot on Super 8, “Car Culture” portrays the downfall of humankind’s favourite tool – the car – with live performance accompaniment.

  • Coming + Going

    A portrait of the energy of urban life in split-screen. “Coming + going” was shot on one roll of regular 8 film, with all editing and split-screen effects created in-camera. Selected screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007; Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2006; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, 2006; Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2005