1995 Obsessive Becoming video (55 min.)
A poetic exploration of the legacy of secrecy and denial in Reeves’ family and in the historical dimension. “Under his own impassioned voice over, the perfect fusion of form and content — he uses morphing to merge the many faces in the past just as they’ve merged in his memory — shows both a keen intelligence and a brave human being at work. Extraordinary.” Trevor Johnson –TIME OUT, London.
International Premieres:
·Lincoln Center, New York Film & Video Festival
·National Film Theater and Institute of Contemporary Art, London ·Vancouver Film Festival, British Columbia
·Video Positive, Liverpool, England
Awards:
·Best of the Berlin Film Festival Selection
·First Prize: Experimental Video, 23rd Athens International Film & Video Festival ·Juror’s Choice, Charlotte Film & Video Festival, North Carolina
·Honored during retrospective of oeuvre at Mill Valley Film Festival
·Second Prize, The Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
·Winner, “Personal Visions Award”, Long Island Film Festival, New York
·Directors Choice, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New Jersey
Exhibitions / Featured:
·The Robert Flaherty Film Festival, Ithaca, New York
·Mostra Internazionale del Nuova Cinema Festival, Pesaro, Italy ·
“Southern Circuit,” seven state lecture / exhibition tour
·American Film Institute’s Los Angeles Video Festival
·The Worldwide Video Festival, The Netherlands
·INPUT, Guadalajara, Mexico
·Le Nouveau Festival International du Cinema, Montreal
·European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
·Rio Cine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
·Long Beach Museum of Art, California
·Wellington Film Festival, New Zealand
·9th Annual Dallas Video Festival
A poetic exploration of the legacy of secrecy and denial in Reeves’ family and in the historical dimension. “Under his own impassioned voice over, the perfect fusion of form and content — he uses morphing to merge the many faces in the past just as they’ve merged in his memory — shows both a keen intelligence and a brave human being at work. Extraordinary.” Trevor Johnson –TIME OUT, London.
International Premieres:
·Lincoln Center, New York Film & Video Festival
·National Film Theater and Institute of Contemporary Art, London ·Vancouver Film Festival, British Columbia
·Video Positive, Liverpool, England
Awards:
·Best of the Berlin Film Festival Selection
·First Prize: Experimental Video, 23rd Athens International Film & Video Festival ·Juror’s Choice, Charlotte Film & Video Festival, North Carolina
·Honored during retrospective of oeuvre at Mill Valley Film Festival
·Second Prize, The Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
·Winner, “Personal Visions Award”, Long Island Film Festival, New York
·Directors Choice, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New Jersey
Exhibitions / Featured:
·The Robert Flaherty Film Festival, Ithaca, New York
·Mostra Internazionale del Nuova Cinema Festival, Pesaro, Italy ·
“Southern Circuit,” seven state lecture / exhibition tour
·American Film Institute’s Los Angeles Video Festival
·The Worldwide Video Festival, The Netherlands
·INPUT, Guadalajara, Mexico
·Le Nouveau Festival International du Cinema, Montreal
·European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
·Rio Cine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
·Long Beach Museum of Art, California
·Wellington Film Festival, New Zealand
·9th Annual Dallas Video Festival
Obsessive Becoming from Daniel Reeves on Vimeo.