Five years in the making, OBSESSIVE BECOMING is an extraordinarily powerful and poetic achievement. Video Positive welcomes Daniel Reeves to the Unity Theatre to present the work in person.
OBSESSIVE BECOMING is at heart a document concerned with how we might learn to be made more whole in our hearts and minds through the process of insight, understanding and forgiveness. It looks directly at the problem of healing around those wounded areas of our being where we have suffered as children at the hands of our parents and others. To my mind, the neglect, denial and chronic impoverishment of our emotional lives which stems from ignoring or burying the deeper shadows that the film explores, remain as a primary cause for the suffering which we inflict on ourselves and those around us as individuals, families and as nations.
The programme has evolved as an impressionistic, layered and fragmented autobiography. Although OBSESSIVE BECOMING springs from the story line of memory, the work is not so much about personality or even personal history, but strives to embrace the universality of childhood suffering, both mental and physical. It has evolved to become much more of a vehicle for looking deeply into the roots of dysfunction, suffering and abuse as they are handed down to us as a tormented family legacy. In turning over this ground I sense that in many ways it has helped uncover the very real possibilities of healing and reconciliation which I have searched for throughout my adult life. Since the mid-'80s I have been exploring computer processes and developing techniques which enable me to create an immediate visual language and style employing and transforming the image into as plastic and textual a palette as possible. Daniel Reeves.
World Premiere.
[LESS]Five years in the making, OBSESSIVE BECOMING is an extraordinarily powerful and poetic achievement. Video Positive welcomes Daniel Reeves to the Unity Theatre to present the work in person.
OBSESSIVE BECOMING is at heart a document concerned with how we might learn to be made more whole in our hearts and minds through the process of insight, understanding and forgiveness. It looks directly at the problem of healing around those wounded areas of our being where we have suffered as children at the hands of our parents and others. To my mind, the neglect, denial and chronic impoverishment of our emotional lives which stems from ignoring or burying the deeper shadows that the film explores, remain as a primary cause for the suffering which we inflict on ourselves and those around us as individuals, families and as nations.
The programme has evolved as an impressionistic, layered and fragmented autobiography. Although OBSESSIVE BECOMING springs from the story line of memory, the work is not so much about personality or even personal history, but strives to embrace the universality of childhood suffering, both mental and physical. It has evolved to become much more of a vehicle for looking deeply into the roots of dysfunction, suffering and abuse as they are handed down to us as a tormented family legacy. In turning over this ground I sense that in many ways it has helped uncover the very real possibilities of healing and reconciliation which I have searched for throughout my adult life. Since the mid-'80s I have been exploring computer processes and developing techniques which enable me to create an immediate visual language and style employing and transforming the image into as plastic and textual a palette as possible. Daniel Reeves.
World Premiere.
