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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: 162
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.
25 March 2021
An Opel ‘muscle car’, makes its way around and around the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany.
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.
06 August 2026
Pleas Everson Sr. waxes poetically about his history of employment.
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.
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 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.
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.
27 January 2017
Rough and Unequal: Oceanis Procellarum (2017) is a single channel film about the beautiful lunar surface.
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.
20 February 2003
Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.
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.
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.
15 April 2026
Chaired by the city’s mayor, Rodick Bobo, a relative of the filmmaker’s, motions are moved, seconded and voted on.
12 January 2015
Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.
29 August 2019
The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white.
24 August 2020
A film about a birdwatcher looking for the state bird of Mississippi.
29 September 2017
A gentleman recalls the play-by-play of the 1978 boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Art McKnight, local prizefighter from Mansfield, Ohio.
10 December 2002
Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in contemporary Rome, Italy.
01 January 2016
Lost Nothing is the subject Willie James Crittenden waxes poetically about.
01 January 2009
1940s identification photographs document the workers of a factory in one of the first predominantly Black neighborhoods in Mansfield, Ohio.
01 January 2010
Betty and a candle
30 May 2018
Richland Black & White
02 January 2013
Kevin Jerome Everson's single-take film of a street hustler's sleight-of-hand game takes its place in a rowdy crowd of onlookers.
30 April 2020
A meditation on the speed of an Opel car.
01 January 2014
A glance at the fancy moves by the Mansfield Senior High football team in Mansfield, Ohio.
01 November 2018
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.
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.
01 January 2009
Shot in a single, handheld, eleven-minute black-and-white take, Old Cat captures a slow but pleasant motorboat journey along a river in Virginia.
02 October 2022
by Kevin Jerome Everson
20 October 2002
72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.
11 March 2020
Inventory is based on Želimir Žilnik’s classic Inventory. A quick succession of soldiers explain how they ended up in military life at the Columbus Air Force Base 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi.
28 January 2017
Improvement Association features Malik Hudgins, a lifelong member of the UNIA and resident of Philadelphia PA, waxing poetically about life.
25 April 2017
A riff on the Lumière Brothers’ first film, capturing an audience’s exodus from a football stadium in Salisbury, North Carolina.
05 February 2012
In a 2014 artist statement, Kevin Jerome Everson wrote, "The main thing I like doing is filming people of African descent, black folks, who are really good at what they do.
03 August 2022
"Weidle's" was a delicatessen in the artist's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio that serviced the Northside community.
01 January 2015
Preparing a surface for re-representation.
01 January 2007
Something Else is a film about found footage as subject matter and Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia 1971 expressing her thoughts about the upcoming Miss Black Virginia 1971 Pageant.
13 September 1999
Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.
01 January 2015
Three Pontiacs and a Buick Regal becoming something entirely different.
08 February 2019
Traveling Shoes is based on the hit record by the Ohio-based gospel group, The Brown Singers.
01 January 2013
The Lumière Brothers’ first film is reimagined at a job site in Columbus, Mississippi.
01 January 2017
Two University of Virginia grapplers take instructions.
01 January 2020
A film with found footage about a couple enjoying a beautiful day, long walks and a firearm, a blanket, food, sex and art.
