African-American filmmaker.
Kevin Jerome Everson's impressive body of work, five full-lenghth films that cross the boundaries between documentary, experimental and fiction film, and a huge variety of short features, stands out as one of the most fascinating creations of modern cinema. Focusingon history, society and mythology, Everson's work sinks into the creases of space and time where past and future meet and thus reaches a cinematic place where the process of filmmaking becomes the silent witness of the daily struggle of mankind. The use of complex long takes and the careful attention lent to the anthropological and political transformations of the African-American working class are the core of a unique oeuvre that stands out incontemporary cinema in a fascinating, hypnotic and potent way.


Short Filmography

Pictures from Dorothy
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:05 | 2003 | United States
A little girl and her daily adventures captured like pictures from a home movie.

Something Else
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:02 | 2007 | United States
A short film about found footage as subject matter and Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia 1971...

The Citizens
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:05 | 2009 | United States
The film includes Mohammad Ali talking about life, Althea Gibson returning home as a champion, Fidel Castro...

Telethon
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:05 | 2009 | United States
A short found footage film about two talented acts waiting to perform in Sammy Davis' ill- fated 1973 telethon for highway safety.

Honorable Mention
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:02 | 2009 | United States
A film about the public perception of African-Americans as portrayed in the official media.

Around Oak Grove
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:02 | 2009 | United States
In Around Oak Grove, space is understood as a physical manifestation of time...

Fillmore
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:04 | 2010 | United States
Fillmore gets back to the origins of Everson as a street photographer...

BZV
Kevin Jerome Everson | 00:32 | 2010 | United States
Made in Brazzaville, Congo, BZV questions the images conventionally associated with Africa.


Source:
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