BULLETT PRESENTS: JOJO BABY

Producer: Justin Moran Director/Editor: Greg Stephen Reigh Camera: Emily Esperanza, Greg Stephen Reigh Sound: Abby Young Music: Lake Radio, Caural

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.

Outtakes from BULLETT PRESENTS: Jojo Baby. See the original doc here: vimeo.com/144360215 Our interview with Jojo was probably the most difficult editing job I've ever done. Jojo is by far the most interesting person I've ever had the fortune to get on film; I didn't want to cut out a single second. So when I just had to leave some stuff on the cutting room floor for the sake of brevity, it was only a matter of time before I went back to it, and found I had a whole 'nother short film's worth of material.

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 

PRESS:

Bullett Magazine

Huffington Post

Red Eye

Papermag ("VIDEO TO WATCH OF THE WEEK")

 

KULTURPARK

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.
— Cine-File

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