Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson
03:02:04 | 3 DVDs
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets
Tags: African-American, Documentary, Experimental Film, Family, Found Footage, Labor, Mixed media, Photography, Race
Kevin Jerome Everson’s prolific body of work is grounded in formalism and combines scripted and documentary elements. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of African-Americans and people of African descent, often working class. The conditions are usually physical, social and economic circumstances, or weather. His films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life--along with its beauty--and present oblique metaphors for art making. This 3-DVD box set includes the feature Cinnamon, 23 short-form works, and a booklet with the following:
- Undefeated--Notes on KJE's films -- Emmanuel Burdeau
- A Work Aesthetic: The Films of Kevin Jermoe Everson -- Monica McTighe
- Who Killed Evidence? -- Katrin Mundt
- 'To Do Better': Notes on the Work of Kevin Jerome Everson -- Michael B. Gillespie
Produced by Video Data Bank in association with Picture Palace Pictures and Trich Arts.
This box set is dedicated to DeCarrio Antwan Couley, 1984-2010.
Included Titles
Cinnamon presents a glimpse into the world of African American drag racing. It follows the consistent routine of a bank teller and a mechanic as they prepare for the sport. Once the routine is disrupted, the result of the race comes into...
Collection: Single Titles |
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. Cast: Chris Barkley, Hassen Mahamud, Kenny West, James Williams....
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, labor |
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...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, city, documentary, experimental film, family, labor, migration, mixed media, race |
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. Cast: Joseph Bayorha. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, european film/video, labor, race |
72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job. Cast: DeCarrio Couley. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, labor |
A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work. A Creative Capital 2001 Grantee. Cast: Maurice Printis. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, labor |
753 McPherson Street employs both original and found footage to represent a very old, passionate, and sometimes lucrative business–a funeral home, in Mansfield, Ohio. The title refers to its street location situated in Everson’s...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, death and dying, found footage, labor |
Twenty Minutes is about the design and usage of the pulley from the era of Leonardo Da Vinci to the early 21st Century. Cast: Clifton Bazemore, Derek Bazemore. Animation: Aaron Biscombe. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: labor |
Pictures from Dorothy is a current day consideration of the symbolism of Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. Cast: Matilda Washington. Music: David Reid. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, literature, youth/childhood |
Two–Week Vacation depicts a segment of society whose preoccupation with work interrupts even their vacation. Cast: Matilda Washington. Music: David Reid. This title is only availalbe on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, labor |
Old Cat will eventually and pleasantly get to a destination. Shot in the summer of 2009, in a single take, on a lake in Virginia. Cast: Chad Bowles, Marcus Bowles. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles |
Fifeville is a film about a neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia. It focuses on the details, gestures, and material life of the citizens of Fifeville as they communicate their understandings of the neighborhood’s changing landscape...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, documentary, environment, experimental film, landscape, race |
140 Over 90 is about the crisis of hypertension in the Black community. Cast: DeCarrio Couley, James Williams. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, health |
The Picnic is a film made with found footage about a couple enjoying a beautiful day, food, sex, a blanket, long walks and a firearm. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, found footage, sexuality |
Ike is about a person showing their special gift–if pushed. The truth, fiction and lore of a brick thrower with deadly accurate aim. Cast: Deondre “Champ” Jones, Derron Everson, Anthony Jerrell Jones. This title is only...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, body |
Playing Dead is a film about lying still to stay alive. A news reporter queries the survivor of a brutal attack. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles |
Ring attempts to exhibit the “sweet science” of boxing in an elegant way. This title is only available on Broad Daylight...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, body, found footage |
Home is about disappointment in northern Ohio. The scoreboard depicted is on the grounds of Mansfield Senior High. The sentiment conjures the close call. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles |
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. Cast: James Williams. This title...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, crime or violence, found footage, race |
Undefeated is about mobility and immobility, or just trying to stay warm. Featuring DeCarrio Couley shadowboxing to the rhythm of a hand–cranked Bolex. Cast: DeCarrio Couley, James Everson. This title is only available on...
Collection: Single Titles |
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. Cast: Rene Marie. This title is only...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, found footage, gender, race |
Blind Huber is a film interpretation of a poem by the American writer Nick Flynn loosely based on the life of Francois Huber, the blind 18th Century beekeeper, who sat before a series of hives for fifty years unlocking an unknown world...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: experimental film, history, poetry |
Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo. This title is only available on ...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, death and dying, history |
Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life. This title is only available on Broad Daylight and...
Collection: Single Titles |
Exhibitions + Festivals
More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson, Whitney Museum of American Art, April - September 2011
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