bio
Kim Reese is a Milwaukee-based filmmaker who graduated from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film. In both her documentary and narrative works, community and the human experience lie as a throughline in much of her work.
Working in a variety of departments - art, camera, g & e, post-production, sound, and talent - Reese finds all aspects of filmmaking rewarding and strives to continue growing in her craft.
Her pieces have been shown in a variety of spaces: Milwaukee Film Festival, Milwaukee International Short Film Festival, Nō Studios Film Showcase, Door County Kinetic Arts Festival, and the Power24 Film Festival. Reese was also awarded a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work with the ACLU to create a series of videos regarding the carceral system and it's effects on pregnant individuals.
Reese is looking forward to continuing her craft in the Midwest region.
My collection of work exemplifies the human experience and vulnerability through the lens of time-based media. By hinging on the puzzle pieces of self, my films organize around detrivializing common and intimate feelings. I attend to film in every area of production: a jack of all trades in the machine of movies. If I am not familiar with a tool, I must adapt to be. My influences arrive from the neighbor kids, closed door conversations, and a strangers family photos. My work aims to create an experience akin to a home video. My thesis film, May Day, for example, holds to familiar elements of a birthday -- the awkwardness of being sung happy birthday to and the disappointment of aging -- to create a home away from home: a present tense nostalgia. May Day is a film where I get to befriend every element of the machine. I grow myself as a person and on screen.
I look forward to continuing to grow in my art by further creating films and lending my skills to those around me. My work can be seen here on my website or in local festivals.