Mary Beth Reed

Jakob

Mary Beth Reed

Super-8 images glued onto the frames of hand-painted 16mm leader becomes a study of movement within the frame and its boundaries.

Garden Path

Stan Brakhage, Mary Beth Reed

Stan Brakhage

A depiction of the creative process of hand-painting film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous abstract painting transforms the screen into an oneiric botanical landscape. Brakhage's painted loops leap out of black and white footage of the master at work, painting and printing.

Richmond Study 2 - Monument Avenue

Mary Beth Reed

Abstract hand painted film inspired by statues of confederate civil war generals and president (Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Davis), scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury, and tennis legend Arthur Ashe along Monument Avenue.

Floating under a Honey Tree

Mary Beth Reed

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

Moose Mountain Two

Mary Beth Reed

Inspired by foreign landscapes and the Rocky Mountains, the films 'Moose Mountain' and 'Moose Mountain Two' include animation, hand processing, and hand painted film.

Montessori Sword Fight

Mary Beth Reed

A young girl struggles to perfect her new found passion, swordfighting. She discovers her role model when a band of Montessori school children invite her to a demonstration given by a legendary Hollywood master. After intense training, the children's adroit sword play awakens their competitive instincts. They rebel against their teacher, and a harrowing duel ensues. The heroine faces internal turmoil, when the Montessori gang forces her to choose between her master's path and their growing power. The film combines optically printed and hand processed original and appropriated imagery.

Jake Seven

Mary Beth Reed

A few lingering brush flicks, olive drops of color splitting open on the vines, the roulette ball of our random lives dropped into the basket on some universal wheel and the road keeps winding out before him like a wick, excerpts from Steve Gehrke's poem Jackson Pollock Driving.

After Creation After Icebergs

Mary Beth Reed

Visual music created with paint on an 8x10 canvas, an iPad, and After Effects as if working on an early cinematic special effects machine, the optical printer. The subtle hues above the water shift as the film dives into the depths of the icebergs, surfacing once more into a kaleidoscopic landscape.

Pink Film

Mary Beth Reed

Three girls embark on an oneiric journey in search of a role model. After hearing Darwin's advice, the girls dissatisfaction leads to a rebellion.

Moose Mountain

Mary Beth Reed

Inspired by foreign landscapes and the Rocky Mountains, the films 'Moose Mountain' and 'Moose Mountain Two' include animation, hand processing, and hand painted film.

Moon Streams

Mary Beth Reed

The film builds up a surface tension that seems quite rocky and solid. This surface gradually begins to crumble and a bubbling of dusty gold begins, like a geyser, to break up this tension. The surface of paints and rhythms flows with the water and everything inside of the body of work spills out until electrical creative charges accompany the liquid gold and rock. Suddenly, out of this storm comes a red and yellow explosion of warmth and creativity, spilling out over the body like a lava flow.