BULLETT PRESENTS: JOJO BABY
Commissioned by Bullett Magazine Fashion Editor, Justin T. Moran, JOJO BABY is a documentary short that details the work of Chicago artist, Drag performer, and original club kid, Jojo Baby.
JOJO BABY [From the Cutting Room Floor] is the followup to the original documentary, comprised of interview content that was cut from the original film
Official Selection, Chicago Underground Film Festival 2014
“KULTURPARK (Greg Reigh, 2013, 20 min)...is a multilayered and intricate meditation on the connections between geography, memory, and personal identity. Beginning as a simple exploration of the semi-abandoned Spree Park in Berlin, Reigh’s movie turns into a deeply self-reflexive experiment, incorporating its own means of production and images from Reigh’s early, unremembered childhood in its discussion of the hidden residues of history forgotten within our cities, our lives. Deeply moving and vulnerable, the movie’s melancholic attempts to recapture lost moments and people lost to time thickly coalesce on to one another, until the rotting, broken detritus of the park is unmistakable as physical manifestations of a way of life forever just out of the reach of recollection.”
My brief encounter with Berlin's abandoned Spree Park, and subsequent attempt to create a film on the subject, sparked a strange series of introspective tangents, which eventually became the subject matter for this film essay. Kulturpark is a meditation on memory and history; a film whose contents also serve as the process that informed its creation.
Essay film; Approx. 20 mins
Super 8mm film and Digital Video
Shot in Berlin, Germany
Edited in Chicago, Illinois
2012-2013