You & Me (2024) (Installation, Two-Channel Projection with Sound), Collaboration with Kiera Faber (Do Not Bend Series)
This installation is part of Faber and Reyes' exhibition Do Not Bend in the Target Gallery at Saint John's University, Collegeville Minnesota (October 22 - December 4, 2024).
This installation is part of Faber and Reyes' exhibition Do Not Bend in the Target Gallery at Saint John's University, Collegeville Minnesota (October 22 - December 4, 2024).
Perimenopause (2024) (3 minutes, 28 seconds) (Animated Digital Video)
This animated digital short connects the experience of someone going through perimenopause to everyday life.
This animated digital short connects the experience of someone going through perimenopause to everyday life.
Cyclical (2020) (3 minutes, 13 seconds) (Digital Video)
Vulnerability, depression, and the pressure to adapt finds itself expressed in this found footage collage film. Score by Tess Nordstrom.
Vulnerability, depression, and the pressure to adapt finds itself expressed in this found footage collage film. Score by Tess Nordstrom.
So Far (2020) (52 Seconds) (Digital Video)
Exploring the emotion of feeling stuck, unsure, and locked to a moment in time.
Exploring the emotion of feeling stuck, unsure, and locked to a moment in time.
Yesterday (2020) (3 minutes, 30 seconds) (Digital Video)
A domestic moment becomes a memory, fragmented and longing.
A domestic moment becomes a memory, fragmented and longing.
Crevices (2019) (5 minutes, 50 seconds) (Silent) (Digital Video)
Through metaphorical and meditative qualities, this abstract film shot completely in France, is a quiet reflection on moments where my mind wanders, gathers, worries, generates and settles. It is in between all of this where uncertainty, longing, connection, and creative curiosity occurs.
Through metaphorical and meditative qualities, this abstract film shot completely in France, is a quiet reflection on moments where my mind wanders, gathers, worries, generates and settles. It is in between all of this where uncertainty, longing, connection, and creative curiosity occurs.
Drawing in the Moment (2017) (9 minutes, 54 seconds) (Digital Video)
A collaborative video musing by Anita White and Jes Reyes. It documents the intuitive artistic process of artist Anita White.
Music, lyrics, and art by Anita White. Camera, sound and editing by Jes Reyes
A collaborative video musing by Anita White and Jes Reyes. It documents the intuitive artistic process of artist Anita White.
Music, lyrics, and art by Anita White. Camera, sound and editing by Jes Reyes
Beneath the Skin (2016) (6 minutes, 36 seconds) (Silent) (Digital Video)
Beneath the Skin explores the ongoing tenderness I feel towards the loss of my mother. It gets to the heart of my grief by exploring how my deepest memories lay beneath my skin. They flow in waves, appear distorted and can take over my mind when I am least expecting it.
Beneath the Skin explores the ongoing tenderness I feel towards the loss of my mother. It gets to the heart of my grief by exploring how my deepest memories lay beneath my skin. They flow in waves, appear distorted and can take over my mind when I am least expecting it.
Components (2015) (4 minutes, 11 seconds) (Silent) (Digital Video)
A silent and short video poem collaboration made with Katie Rensch. Components layers moving image with word, and explores how our bodies intersect the man-made and natural world. To speak to these two worlds, an artistic voice emerges to translate what the body feels and what the body says to its segmented existence.
A silent and short video poem collaboration made with Katie Rensch. Components layers moving image with word, and explores how our bodies intersect the man-made and natural world. To speak to these two worlds, an artistic voice emerges to translate what the body feels and what the body says to its segmented existence.
The Wind of Our Body (2015) (2 minutes, 41 seconds) (Digital Video)
A collaborative video poem made with Katie Rensch. The Wind of Our Body explores how the individual body, at times fragmented and enigmatic, attempts to communicate within the larger space of our society. As the body moves, a nonverbal language emerges that gives wind to our true emotional selves, a language that crosses barriers and accepts our at times, untranslatable world.
A collaborative video poem made with Katie Rensch. The Wind of Our Body explores how the individual body, at times fragmented and enigmatic, attempts to communicate within the larger space of our society. As the body moves, a nonverbal language emerges that gives wind to our true emotional selves, a language that crosses barriers and accepts our at times, untranslatable world.
Loss (2015) (2 minutes, 24 seconds) (Digital Video)
A video poem sharing about the last moments I had with my mother before she passed away the next morning.
A video poem sharing about the last moments I had with my mother before she passed away the next morning.
A Mind of Winter (2014) (6 minutes,17 seconds) (Digital Video)
A collaboration with Katie Rensch
A Mind of Winter explores our human relationship with the natural world and our society’s attempt to push against seasonal change. This film asks viewers to consider their physical and emotional connection with nature.
A collaboration with Katie Rensch
A Mind of Winter explores our human relationship with the natural world and our society’s attempt to push against seasonal change. This film asks viewers to consider their physical and emotional connection with nature.
Jean Says Videos
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25 Videos
a play in persona making
(2007-2008)
25 Videos
a play in persona making