Jennifer Reeves presents When It Was Blue

Jennifer Reeves, a Wexner Center Residency Award recipient in 2006–07, returns to the center to present her latest film, which is shown as two overlapping 16mm projections.

The film's sold-out world premiere was one of the most enthusiastically received screenings at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Glorious in its sense of ambition and emotion, When It Was Blue is an epic of personal, experimental cinema and one woman's attempt to preserve as much as possible of the troubling beauty of two endangered things that she holds dear: the natural world and 16mm film. The double projections weave together dense layers of ecological imagery that Reeves shot around the globe (including Canada, Costa Rica, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.) with found footage and abstract, hand-painted textural elements. (68 mins., double 16mm + digital sound)

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