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I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works

Kevin Jerome Everson combines the observational and theoretical in innovative ways that shed light on life in Black America. In doing so, Everson asks us to meditate on the implications of Blackness, labor, and creativity. An original essay entitled Working Over Time, written by Terri Francis, accompanies this compilation as ROM content.

# Title Artists Run Time Year Country
1 Quality Control Kevin Jerome Everson 01:11:00 2011 United States
2 Sound That Kevin Jerome Everson 00:11:40 2014 United States
3 Mansfield Product Company Kevin Jerome Everson 00:02:15 2014 United States
4 Half On, Half Off Kevin Jerome Everson 00:03:36 2011 United States

Quality Control

Kevin Jerome Everson
2011 | 01:11:00 | United States | English | B&W | Stereo | 4:3 | Film
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Quality Control consists of a series of single take shots of the fine folks of Alabama producing a superior product. Filmed in a dry cleaners in Pritchard, Alabama, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor.

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Sound That

Kevin Jerome Everson
2014 | 00:11:40 | United States | English | | | |
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Sound That is about the employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County.  

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Mansfield Product Company

Kevin Jerome Everson
2014 | 00:02:15 | United States | English | B&W | Silent | 4:3 | Film
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Mansfield Product Company is about receiving something new layered with something old.

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Half On, Half Off

Kevin Jerome Everson
2011 | 00:03:36 | United States | English | Color | Silent | 4:3 | 16mm film
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Half On, Half Off documents a team of workers on a Pensacola, Florida beach dealing with the aftermath of the recent Deepwater Horizon Spill.  Filmed one frame at a time, compressing hours of work onto a single 3-minute roll of 16mm film. The title refers to the work schedule of the cleaners, who work in half hour shifts punctuated with pauses of the same length.

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