Blake James Reid
- Disciplines
- 4D / Time-based, Word
- Mediums
- film, video, moving image, writing
- Based in
- New York
Blake James Reid is a writer, director and producer from South Florida, based in New York. He wrote and directed the short comedy The Man Without Qualities (2025), starring musician John Maus and performance artist Brian Belott, which premiered through NOWNESS and screened in The Downtown Festival's New Voices New York programme at the Roxy Cinema in October 2025. He went on to direct John Maus's music videos Pick It Up and Disappears (both September 2025) for the label Young. He is developing a feature set in Palm Beach, loosely adapted from his brother's book HALT: The American Rehab Experience. He studied film and video at Pratt Institute.
Works
- The Man Without Qualities2025, film, 7 min
- John Maus: Pick It Up2025, music video
- John Maus: Disappears2025, music video
Exhibitions and performances
- 2025, The Downtown Festival — New Voices New York, Roxy Cinema, New York