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Kevin Jerome Everson is an artist and maker of numerous short films and features about the lives and myths of the working-class black Americans. In 2006, Everson was voted one of the 25 most important new faces in independent cinema by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2012, he received the prestigious Alpert Award for Film and Video. Everson's work is shot in an experimental way, often on 16mm film. Everson mixes a documentary approach that often evokes the appearance of fiction. Documentary or fiction, the label is not very important, but the uncertainty indicates that his special work does not fit easily into any particular category.
Most Popular Kevin Jerome Everson Trailers
Total trailers found: 170
16 March 2025
Chelsea Drive displays three decades of Black student style, fashion and dance at the University of Virginia.
25 March 2021
An Opel ‘muscle car’, makes its way around and around the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany.
29 August 2019
The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white.
24 January 2015
This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out.
01 August 2002
Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.
06 October 2017
Historic UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, are evoked through memory, report and gesture.
17 October 2024
A dual-screen, fictionalized recreation of Eddie Hazel’s famous 10-minute guitar solo on the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain.
29 September 2017
An enactment of the last days of Alessandro de’ Medici, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532.
31 July 2025
Dooni is the eulogy, voiced by actor Timothy Johnson, of the American soul singer and disco legend Sylvester (1947-1988) as delivered by the gospel singer and preacher Walter Hawkins.
01 September 2024
Lake Idlewild is the idyllic Black resort town of Idlewild Michigan, is where Danielle Thesiger rows.
20 October 2022
Two University of Virginia workers share a drink and conversation at a local nightclub. One worker is a phlebotomist and the other is a former EKG technician who has relocated from New Mexico and works now in the university cafeteria.
25 February 2024
A young man walks through the lot of a drive-in theatre on the day of a double feature.
01 January 2004
A very different Dorothy ... a much different Oz.
21 April 2021
Set in Charlottesville during the early 1990s, "Pride" follows an aspiring writer as she finalises stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia.
06 August 2026
Pleas Everson Sr. waxes poetically about his history of employment.
01 January 2007
2007, 3 minutes
10 November 2012
"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence.
27 January 2013
Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ - sparked this trip to meet the inhabitants of Westport, a small town just to the west of Columbus, Mississippi.
01 January 2008
Playing Dead is a film about lying still to stay alive. A news reporter queries the survivor of a brutal attack.
19 February 2009
Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West.
28 January 2017
Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of Election Day, November 8, 2016.
12 February 2019
A silent portrait of the funeral of Mary Louise Everson Humphries Tubbs
21 April 2021
"July" has fireflies luminating their very temporary surroundings.
01 January 2009
A short found footage film about two talented acts waiting to perform in Sammy Davis’ ill- fated 1973 telethon for highway safety.
01 January 2019
The Barrel is about a proprietor of a liquor store in Mississippi taking inventory.
21 May 2017
This film presents three generations of the Carr family waxing poetically about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.
16 August 2013
Stoplight Liberty focuses on a single intersection in Columbus, Mississippi.
10 May 1999
A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.
27 January 2017
Rough and Unequal: Oceanis Procellarum (2017) is a single channel film about the beautiful lunar surface.
01 February 2013
Charlie Smith recalls segregation, working construction and moonshine. But the real subject of this documentary short is the septuagenarian's wry manner of dodging Kevin Jerome Everson's questions.
01 December 2009
Company Line is a film about one of the first predominately Black neighborhoods in Mansfield Ohio. The title, Company Line, refers to the name historically used by residents to describe their neighborhood, located on the north side of town close to the old steel mill.
09 August 2024
What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
20 February 2003
Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.
16 July 2003
From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of Xénia in 1974 answers, at thousands of kilometers in distance and centuries apart, the mythical eruption of Vesuvius in 79.
22 January 2009
Second and Lee is a cautionary tale about when not to run. It uses archival reportage and voiceover recollection to trace through repetitive corridors of presumption, justice, and judgment.
01 January 2019
The Foothills of the Allegheny Plateau is where the city of Mansfield Ohio lies. Begins with a pair of binoculars made in the Mansfield Ohio Westinghouse factory during WWII (where the artist was briefly employed) that Everson cast in bronze and rubber, rendering them useless.
15 April 2026
Chaired by the city’s mayor, Rodick Bobo, a relative of the filmmaker’s, motions are moved, seconded and voted on.
01 January 2019
Rappers and gospel singers, on the streets and in their homes—music from the edge of the allegheny plateau presents different generations from the African American communities of Mansfield, Ohio, sharing their passions, their talents, and their messages of faith and ambition through music and gesture.
12 January 2015
Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.
01 January 2008
140 Over 90 is about the crisis of hypertension in the Black community.
24 August 2020
A film about a birdwatcher looking for the state bird of Mississippi.
01 January 2008
Short film in which we see DeCarrio Couley shadow boxing.
01 January 2009
Lead is a tale of an early 20th Century Robin Hood, based on a story by James Williams, involving jumping trains and throwing coal off for needy Southerners.
10 July 2008
Home (2008) is about disappointment in northern Ohio. (super-8, 1:30, black and white)
01 January 2014
A memorial cake is carefully cut, served and preserved.
01 January 2012
A car is getting thrashed.
21 May 2019
A new film by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold. Part of the Black Fire UVA series.
02 February 2014
A beautifully wrought superimposition in black-and-white, MANSFIELD PRODUCT COMPANY layers a crane demolishing a car with two young men installing a stove.
01 January 2018
A corrupt Police Dept produced several films. This is what they could have been like.
31 December 2014
"Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.
01 February 2006
A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson).
19 September 1999
A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.
01 January 2008
A man blows out the 93 candles on his birthday cake in slow motion and B&W.
22 October 2016
Eason is inspired by the life of Rev. James Walker Hood Eason (1886-1923), an early leader of Philadelphia’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.
24 March 2019
Kevin Jerome Everson and his collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland, Ohio.
05 February 2012
One of several Kevin Jerome Everson pieces regarding African-American rodeo riders, SECOND PLACE brings us inside the big show.
01 January 2016
Famous actor Nathaniel Jitahadi Taylor, who played the role of “Rollo Larson” on the 70’s television series Sanford and Son, waxes poetically on dancers, painters, actors, and filmmakers.
01 January 2014
Ninety, Ninety-Five is about not quite succeeding and the old-school way of making spirits.
18 November 1997
Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.
18 April 2019
Bird-watchers looking for the state bird of Ohio.
