Landfill 16

Landfill 16

color, sound, 9 min
"Exhumed 16mm film from my very own landfill in Elkhart, Indiana constitute the canvas of Landfill 16. After finishing my double-projection When It Was Blue I was horrified by the bulk of outtakes ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"Exhumed 16mm film from my very own landfill in Elkhart, Indiana constitute the canvas of Landfill 16. After finishing my double-projection When It Was Blue I was horrified by the bulk of outtakes that would normally go to a landfill. So I temporarily buried the footage to let enzymes and fungi in the soil begin to decompose the image, and then I hand-painted the film to give it new life. This "recycling" is a meditation on the demise of the beautiful 16mm medium and nature's losing battle to decompose the relics of our abandoned technologies and productions.

The ominous soundtrack mixes recognizable audio, from bulldozers to nature audio, with more abstracted textural and rhythmic sounds I created using audio from consumer-goods factories, old 16mm equipment, the cries of a dying bird stuck in my wall, and other oddities. Within this multi-textured, pulsating, abstract moving painting I attempt to express my dread of man-made waste that endangers land and wildlife." -Jennifer Reeves

Programs

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    The Alchemy of Film: Experiments with the Medium

    A program of FMC works, in collaboration with the James Cohan gallery, that highlight women filmmakers who experiment with the physical medium

    On Friday, June 23rd, 2023, at 6:30pm, join us at the James Cohan gallery (52 Walker Street) for "The Alchemy of Film: Experiments with the Medium," a stunning program of avant-garde works from our archive, curated by Julia Curl, on the occasion of Mary Grigoriadis at Cohan, that highlight women filmmakers who experiment with the physical medium.

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    The End is Nigh: Destruction In (And On) Film

    A program that explores the ways in which destruction has been depicted—and predicted—in avant-garde film

    Join us in the Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room on Friday, October 8th, 2021, at 7pm, for a special series of films curated by Julia Curl.

Films

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    Elations In Negative
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    Elations In Negative
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, black and white, silent, 5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Literarature / Theater
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    Girls Daydream About Hollywood
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    Girls Daydream About Hollywood
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, black and white, sound, 5 min
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    Taste it Nine Times
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    Taste it Nine Times
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min
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    • History
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    Monsters in the Closet
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    Monsters in the Closet
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 15 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Configuration 20
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    Configuration 20
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 12 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Philosophical
    • Environment / Nature
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    The Girl's Nervy
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    The Girl's Nervy
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Cameraless / Handmade
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    Chronic
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    Chronic
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 40 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    We Are Going Home
    Experimental

    We Are Going Home
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color and b/w, sound, 10 min
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    Darling International
    Experimental

    Darling International
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, black and white, sound, 22 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Erotic
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    Trains Are For Dreaming
    Experimental

    Trains Are For Dreaming
    Jennifer Reeves

    color, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • History
    • Environment / Nature
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Family
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    Fear of Blushing
    Experimental

    Fear of Blushing
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Cameraless / Handmade
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    Skinny Teeth
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    Skinny Teeth
    Jennifer Reeves

    video, color, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    The Time We Killed
    Experimental
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    The Time We Killed
    Jennifer Reeves

    sound, 94 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC
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    Shadows Choose Their Horrors
    Experimental

    Shadows Choose Their Horrors
    Jennifer Reeves

    Video, color and b/w, sound, 31 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Light Work Mood Disorder
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    Light Work Mood Disorder
    Jennifer Reeves

    color, sound, 26 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Cameraless / Handmade
    • Found Footage
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    LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER and HE WALKED AWAY
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    LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER and HE WALKED AWAY
    Jennifer Reeves

    16mm, color, sound, 54 min
    Rental format: Digi Beta NTSC
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