Film Screening: Selected Short Films by Kevin Everson
Kevin Everson University of Virginia
Thu, 9/26 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm · James Stewart Theater 185, Nassau Street
Kadett C Three is about the speed and the specs of an Opel car. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2021, 2:35, b&w)
Hough 66 has the talented Fuego Mansa Mufasa exhibiting the visuals of the 1966 Cleveland Ohio uprising. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 7:18, b&w, silent)
If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move features Derek “Dripp” Whitfield Jr. and Taymond “ChoSkii” Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, “Shiesty”, in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine “Country Blakk” Brown only to be interrupted by a John Cage score. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 12:20, color)
The Daily Roster is called into action at a Columbus Mississippi firehouse. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 3:50, b&w)
First Team Offense is made up of Bertha Everson’s great grandchildren. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 3:13, b&w, silent)
May June July are represented with peonies, fireflies and the year 2020. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2021, 8:21, color)
Cactus Wren is a film about a birdwatcher looking for the state bird of Arizona as well as seven other states. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2024, 3:10, color)
Inventory is based on Želimir Žilnik’s classic Inventur, figures descending at the Columbus Air Force Base 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi. (US, 2020, 5:00, b&w)
Union (2019) illustrates the Virginia Union University football working together. (3:00, color, silent)
Boyd v. Denton is the name of the landmark case that closed the Ohio State Reformatory in the artist’s hometown of Mansfield, Ohio in 1990. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 2:45, b&w, sound, no dialogue)