Strawberries in the Summertime (2014)

A twoyearold boy revels in all things tiny and huge on and around a farm His father nurtures his exuberant and insatiable curiosity of new experiences from climbing a crumbling wall to discovering the natural world As a fatherson bond grows the mother with camera observes gets lost into a solitary landscape and returns The fleeting and glowing visual field evokes the delicate tension between distance and intimacy Richly toned black and white positive negative and solarized images combined with snippets of voice suggest the texture of memory Reeves shot handprocessed solarized and colored Strawberries in the Summertime in rural Ontario at the Film Farm Independent Imaging Retreat run by filmmaker Philip Hoffman