Threadbare
16mm Film, Color, Sound, 05:15, 2010/2014 USA
A fever-dream processes childhood memories of medical exploitation. The clinical gaze of the dream holds tightly to the profitable conjuring that vulnerable bodies make possible. Patients unravel into material to support a billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry driven by commercial interests and the fear of our fragile physiology.
Screening History:
2023 OPTRONICA1:16MMPOLYVISION with Kristin Reeves and Ivy Woods, two-person expanded cinema program, presented by Other Cinema at ATA, San Francisco, CA
2023 Bodies for Power and Strength media performance by Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program presented by Cinema Project, at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, Portland OR
2023 Bodies for Power and Strength media performance by Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program presented by Shapeshifters Cinema at Mosswood Chapel, Oakland, CA
2023 Bodies for Power and Strength media performance by Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
2022 Bodies for Power and Strength media performance by Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program and festival headliner, The Engauge Film Festival, Seattle, WA.
2022 Bodies for Power and Strength media performance by Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program, The Centro Cultural de España, (Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico), Mexico City, Mexico.
2021 20th Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Program 5: Kristin Reeves, invited solo/feature-length program, Milwaukee, WI.
2020 Leap Fest Vertical Cinema, Expanded Cinema by Kristin Reeves, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA.
2019 Exposure Series: The Expanded Cinema of Kristin Reeves, Clemens Fine Arts Center, Paducah, KY
2018 Cinema Expanded Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2017 Solo program, invited, Ear & Eye Clinic, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2016 Ovular Films, Experiments in Cinema 11.4 special presentation, Albuquerque, NM (curators Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker & Taylor Dunne)
2015 Solo program, internationally adjudicated, Antimatter [Media Art] Festival, Deluge Contemporary Art, BC, Victoria, Canada
2015 River’s Edge Film Festival, internationally adjudicated, Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, KY
2015 Orienting, internationally adjudicated, AXW Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2015 Dallas Medianale, internationally adjudicated, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2014 London Analogue Festival, internationally adjudicated, London, United Kingdom
2014 Experimental Film Festival Portland, internationally adjudicated, Portland, OR
2014 $100 Film Festival, internationally adjudicated, Calgary, Canada
2013 Jurors screening, invited, Haverhill Experimental Film/Video Festival, Haverhill, MA
2013 GAZE, internationally adjudicated, ATA, San Francisco, CA