Richard Reeves

A direct-on-film piece

C’est La Vie: The Chris J. Melnychuk Story documents the award-winning animator’s (Alien, Zap Girl Makes Toast) battle with tongue cancer. Building on live footage from Chris’s last, unfinished film, C’est La Vie was created posthumously through the collaboration of 19 animators from Quickdraw Animation in Calgary, Canada.

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

This animated film flows through a vibrant underwater landscape, shown at night time. Sound and picture are drawn directly on film - cameraless animation.

Homage to the single frame of film and the colour Pink in 1/24 of a second. 16mm scratch on film image with handmade optical sounds.

This cameraless animation is about the 1:1 relationship between sound & picture: the 1:1 concept became the structure for the entire piece and spawns further thought about relationships between elements in cinema (artist to medium, viewer to screen, projector to film).

History of the Peace River Region over thousands of years. From both the native's and the fur traders points of view.

Zig zag pictures dance to zig zag sounds; both sound and picture drawn onto 35mm film.

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A charming look into beloved cameraless animator Richard Reeves as he reflects on his animation career, his use of the behemoth Oxberry camera stand, and the many projects he has assisted on over the years.

A meditative journey through colour, form and sound. This film was created for Toronto chamber music composer Frank Horvat. The composition is performed by Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston. The animation is created by painting ink directly onto 16mm film.

Story about creation as told by the Dunne-za people of northern Alberta. Richard Reeves' animation excerpt, which was originally commissioned as part of "Dunvegan: Where the Trails Cross".

TV: transformational vibrations.

Drawn directly onto 35mm motion picture film without the use of camera or musical instruments, a visual and aural feast for the senses.

Handmade optical sounds and drawing directly to 35mm film. Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point.

The sound of a heartbeat pumps life into Linear Dreams, a scratch animation film that moves from the simple lines of the unconscious to representational realism.

An exploration of the relationship between sound and picture inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside film projectors.

A short camera-less animation by director Richard Reeves

Celebration of film as an artform for the Liaison Independent Filmmakers of Toronto: 25 Film Manifesto’s. Both sound and picture drawn onto 35mm film.

A countdown leader spliced with found film introduces a very short painted-on-film animation. The soundtrack was made using samples of handmade 35mm optical sounds composed on a computer.