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LIGHT WORK I

By | January 2007

2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! Something that’s meant to be experimental and unique and is really equivalent to watching stock footage of a conveyor belt or planes landing…

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LIGHT WORK I

I’m usually very adept to symbolism and allegory, and from what I could tell, Reeve’s “Light Work I” is an interesting exploration in tedium and...

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