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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
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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.
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.
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.
29 September 2017
An enactment of the last days of Alessandro de’ Medici, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532.
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.
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.
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.
20 May 2009
An attempt to exhibit the “sweet science” in an elegant way.
24 October 2021
The months of May, June, and July are represented with peonies, fireflies, and the year 2020. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) traverses Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.
02 December 2013
U of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976 is based on a photograph taken in the mid 1970s of two African Americans playing foosball.
07 September 2020
by Kevin Jerome Everson.
09 September 2017
A collection of sfumato-tinged bottles shot with tight framing and shallow focus provides a mesmeric portrait of a man and a community in Northeast Ohio, where "Brown and Clear" commonly refer to "Bourbon and Vodka".
03 October 2022
by Kevin Jerome Everson
03 April 1998
Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.
01 January 2009
The Citizens includes found footage of Mohammad Ali talking about life, Althea Gibson returning home as a champion, Fidel Castro playing baseball and three gentlemen being escorting into court all under the watchful eye of the media.
25 March 2021
A driver is learning how to parallel park an Opel Rekord C at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany.
09 November 2023
Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.
29 September 2017
Filmed during the August 2017 solar eclipse, Polly One is about ninety-nine percent totality.
01 January 2011
A group of workers in Pensacola, Florida clean up after the Deepwater Horizon Spill.
05 February 2012
Radiating the radical simplicity of a Lumière actuality, THE MAYBERRY PRACTICE CALF shows an African-American cowboy roping a hunk of tire again and again.
28 August 2022
Pleas “Dinky” Everson tunes his vintage Pontiac with the 1924–26 patent-pended Handee Wrench invented by the late J.
25 August 2020
Westinghouse One is about an old consumer product produced at the Westinghouse factory in Mansfield, Ohio in the 1960s.
01 January 2017
The material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and cool in the summer.
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.
01 January 2008
Short film in which we see DeCarrio Couley shadow boxing.
01 January 2012
A car is getting thrashed.
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.
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.
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).
01 January 2018
A corrupt Police Dept produced several films. This is what they could have been like.
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.
25 March 2021
The ForFour smart car blindly circles the Olympic Stadium in Berlin German, site of Jesse Owens’ 4 Gold Medal Haul at the 1936 Games.
05 February 2012
One of several Kevin Jerome Everson pieces regarding African-American rodeo riders, SECOND PLACE brings us inside the big show.
18 November 1997
Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.
