We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of a long-awaited Blu-ray collection and to spend the evening immersed in the fiercely tactile, deeply personal cinema of Jennifer Reeves!
Released in December 2025, When it was Blue: Jennifer Reeves Selected Works 1992–2022 arrives as a vital gathering of Reeves’ singular body of work, and we’re honored to mark the occasion with a program of shorts spanning her practice, moving across decades, formats, and states of transformation. For this special presentation, we’ll be screening the shorts in a hybrid format, presenting the shorts half on 16mm and half digitally, creating a rare opportunity to experience Reeves’ work across the very material conditions that shape it.
Working primarily in 16mm, Reeves approaches filmmaking as a materially intensive, almost alchemical process, where the image is not just captured but physically altered, distressed, and reimagined. Across these films, Reeves’ work pulses with emotional immediacy, tracing interior landscapes shaped by memory, perception, and the body. Themes of mental health, feminism, and ecological precarity emerge not as fixed subjects, but as shifting conditions that are felt, embodied, and in flux.
We’re so excited to share this program with first-time viewers and longtime admirers alike. Join us for this special screening and for a conversation with Jennifer following the program.
Come through!
Program
- The girl’s nervy (16mm, 5 min, 1995)
- We are going home (16mm, 10 min, 1998)
- Fear of Blushing (16mm, 5.5 min, 2001)
- Landfill 16 (16mm, 9 min, 2011)
- Strawberries in the Summertime (16mm-HD, 16 min, 2013)
- Color Neutral (16mm, 3 minutes, 2014)
- Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome (16mm-2K, 6 minutes, 2022)
- Girls Daydream about Hollywood (16mm, 4 min, 1992)
- Configuration 20 (16mm, 11.5 minutes, 1994)
Program Duration: 70 mins
