8 - 23 April 2025: Psyché Tropes: Richard Reeves
Curated by Steven McInerney, Psyché Tropes and Close-Up are delighted to present a selection of films from Richard Reeves’ impressive oeuvre, offering insight into the animator’s process of direct animation. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker (8th of April only).
Zig Zag, 1994, 1 min
Linear Dreams, 1997, 7 min
Sea Song, 1998, 4 min
CFMDC Trailer, 1999, 30 sec
1:1, 2001, 2’30 min
Element of Light, 2004, 4’30 min
Aura, 2006, 2’30 min
Yarwood Trail, 2009, 4 min
TV, 2018, 2 min
Twilight, 2018, 2 min
Hot Flashes, 2022, 1 min
Intersextion, 2022, 4 min
Fusion, 2024, 3’20 min
For over thirty years, Canadian artist Richard Reeves has been creating animated films by painting both sound and image directly onto 35mm film. He is a kinetic film scratcher, visual music maker, and animated traveller of time and space. Reeves' early short films investigated different animation techniques and styles of music for the soundtracks. He experimented with flicker, finding an appreciable connection between the visual intensity of alternating frames and the sonic impact of punk and jazz music. His explorations with cameraless animation took shape in the early 1990s, leading to a mastery of drawing and scratching of not only the image but a finely detailed synthetic soundtrack, on his breakthrough film Linear Dreams (1997). This was followed up by the equally accomplished Sea Song (1998), and an appearance on the Channel 4 animation series Dope Sheet, bringing him to the attention of viewers and filmmakers in the UK. In 2024, his optical soundtracks were released as a vinyl LP on Psyché Tropes, and his film Intersextion was awarded Best Experimental Animation at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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