DAVID REEVE
WELCOME TO MY MUSIC PORTFOLIO
Music is so important for me and it’s been a real privilege to work with musicians on a number of projects. I’ve filmed in studios in the UK, France and Thailand. I’ve been blown away filming a khaen player in the middle of a field in Isan, as well as in the middle of a full orchestra. This page represents some of the music-related projects I’ve worked on. I’ve also done a lot of other stuff. You can view some of this work here. Email: davidreeve44@gmail.com
music
Okay, so most of these videos are for the band Tindersticks – but I’ve loved every moment of making these films – even filming while ill at Abbey Road. All of these films are solo efforts, apart from Medicine and A Night So Still which were filmed with Patrick Steel, This Fire of Autumn which was photographed with Luciane Pisani, and Light Mind, which at the end of the day I only filmed Daniel’s superb performance.
I loved making this promo. I filmed at Abbey Road for three or four days, battling through a really nasty cold, but the music lifted me. This promo was a process of taking some of the snippets of the Tindersticks songs that I filmed and recorded and creating a new music composition from them, while teasing the album’s tracks and providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the album’s recording.
As a part of my work with Village Raw I recorded a number of live performances. Some of these were rough and ready, and others a little more planned. I also experimented with different way of presenting the sound – such as binaural recording. Many of these were recorded on a phone, with some anamorphic experimentation, so lacking some polish but a lot of fun.
And here’s a few longer doc style projects I’ve been involved with. I edited and co-produced Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith, which premiered at the London Film Festival, was part of the instillation Jardin Infini at the Centre Pompidou-Metz and toured five countries with live music accompaniment. I ideated, co-directed, filmed and edited Y/our Music, which premiered at Busan and SXSW, and went on to win Best International Feature at MUVI Lisboa and earned a nomination for Best Doc at the Thailand National Film Awards.
Passing Through is an innovative 360-degree film featuring Jamaican-born and UK-based 86-year-old trumpet player Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton, a former student at Alpha Boys School, now Alpha Institute. Put together under the name of Strange Brothers, the film is a deconstructed music documentary which, with the help of ambisonic sound, gives space to allow the viewer to construct their own narrative, based on where they look. The film premiered at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, and while you can view it online, it’s best experienced on a VR headset.
And here’s a few snaps I’ve taken along the way…
