Daniel Reeves Biography

Daniel Reeves was born in 1948 in the United States. He graduated from Ithaca College with a B.S. in cinema studies. He has worked in poetry, sculpture, film, and video since 1970. Two years after graduating he produced his first work Thousands Watch in 1979. In 1981 Reeves received three Emmy Awards for Smothering Dreams. This film was about the myths and realities of the war, including his own personal experience with the war while in Viet Nam. He was a survivor of an ambush during the Tet Offense in Viet Nam.

Reeves later began working on the development of video poetics, exploring personal, political and metaphysical themes. In 1985 Sabda, a film in which went along this development, won a blue ribbon at the American Film Festival. Since 1988 he has been working on sculpture, video installations and digital paintings.

Other achievements awarded to Daniel Reeves have been the Rockefeller Inter-cultural Fellowship in Video in 1995, and four fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts including the US-Japan fellowship in 1991. Daniel Reeves now resides in Scotland where he is working on his first narrative film called Perdu. This has to deal with World War I and the affects it had after the war was over.
--Anthony Susi, 2006.

References

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/1999/10/08/25870.html

http://www.pardo.ch/1996/festival96/present/obsessreg.html

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/people/bio.php3?id=481

Daniel Reeves