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- Air Force Two revisits the prison scene featured in "Air Force One", filmed at the original location of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio.
- The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
- A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior, and extreme levels of human/beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the 'only in New York' story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with 500-pound tiger Ming and 7-foot-long alligator Al, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.
- A Soviet film from 1969 is found in an Icelandic fisherman's net, and the filmography of its leading actor offers a portal into a history that has endured on celluloid.
- A Coney Island-inspired, densely-layered visually dynamic documentary portrait of the life and times of the original Nathan's Famous, created in 1916 by filmmaker Lloyd Handwerker's grandparents, Nathan and Ida Handwerker. 30 years in the making, Famous Nathan interweaves decades-spanning archival footage, family photos and home movies, an eclectic soundtrack and never-before-heard audio from Nathan: his only interview, ever as well as compelling, intimate and hilarious interviews with the dedicated band of workers, not at all shy at offering opinions, memories and the occasional tall tale.
- Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.
- Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm single take shots filmed in the summer of 2010,over a two day period, in a dry cleaners facility in Pritchard, Alabama, near Mobile, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor and showcases, in Everson's words "the fine folks of Alabama producing a superior product." It is similar stylistically, in form and rhythm, to certain scenarios in Everson's award-winning and critically acclaimed previous films, including Erie (IFFR 2010) and in thematic concerns to several other short form works which follow the daily, quotidian tasks of workers in rest and in motion, and is an oblique sequel, ten years hence, to Everson's Creative Capital granted project A Week in the Hole (2001), which focused on an employee's adjustment to materials, time, space and personnel.
- A 16mm film of the 14th Flying Training Wing training and working at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi.
- Park Lanes is a film that depicts the workaday routine of a factory in Virginia. It is a durational work, eight hours in length, experienced in real time. The title refers to the name of the Mansfield, Ohio bowling alley frequented by the filmmaker and his family.
- Maya Perry waxes poetically about returning the Puerto Rican Crested Toad back to the wild.
- In 2001, artist K8 Hardy set out to document her outfits on video. Over an eleven-year period, until the camera broke, she captured these outfits - and outfitting- on a fairly consistent, if not daily basis.
- It Seems to Hang On is based on the true story of the serial killers Alton Coleman and Debra Brown, a young Black couple who cut a violent path beginning in the summer of 1984 through the American Midwest (Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin). The dialogue spoken in the film is inspired and based on lyrics from the American soul duo (and couple) Ashford and Simpson's 1979 hit song "It Seems to Hang On". The lyrics refer to a couple struggling to hang on or to be together thought adversity. Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson's strategy was to make a film about a desperate, violent but loving couple on the run from the law. The film was shot in and around the city of Detroit, and area where Coleman and Brown committed several murders. Their crimes were horrific, and their victims were Black with the exception of one white woman, a murder that eventually led to Coleman's conviction and execution. Alton Coleman was executed in 2002. Debra Brown is doing life in a prison in Indiana. Coleman was born in 1956 in Waukegan, Illinois near Wisconsin. Debra Brown was born in 1962 in Ohio. There is no current documentation on how they met.
- Erie consists of a series of single take vignettes in and around communities near Lake Erie that relate to Black migration in the USA, contemporary conditions, folks concentrating on the task at hand, theater and famous art objects.
- Tonsler Park (2017) 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.
- SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The technique and style employed alternates between the documentary, the symbolic, and more conventionally scripted scenes. Filming individuals engaged in their careers conveys the documentary aspect. At a symbolic level, the fossil is a leitmotif suggesting past and present. The title of the film refers to the state butterfly of Mississippi, Spicebush Swallowtail. In the film, Mississippi is a place of origin. The Spicebush Swallowtail represents renewal or starting over. Throughout the film, a little girl appears in different guises and settings, functioning indirectly in the role of the chorus. The scripted scenes, shot in a documentary style, collaged with the other scenes begin to create the traces of a narrative structure.
- The title refers to the name used by residents to describe their neighborhood, which began during the post-war migration of Blacks to the north in the late 1940s. City employees and former residents narrate accounts of past and present.
- Sound That is a 16mm short film, shot in the summer of 2013, following employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for what lies beneath, as they investigate for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
- During an Ear, Nose and Throat examination, Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event that she eye witnessed.
- Three months in the year 2020 - May June July - are represented with peonies, fireflies and a roller skater.
- Portrait based on the first cinematic representation of Afro-American intimacy in the 1898 film Something Good-Negro Kiss.
- Sugarcoated Arsenic is a 16mm cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Conceived and written by UVA History Professor and author Claudrena Harold and directed by Harold and UVA Professor of Art, filmmaker/artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the film stars Erin Stewart (the bank teller/race driver in Everson's 2006 feature film "Cinnamon") as Vivian Gordon (the director of UVA's Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980). The film tells the story of African-American women and men who through their public and private gestures sought to create a beloved community that thrived on intellectual exchange, self-critique, and human warmth.
- Round Seven revisits, in seven parts, the famous 1978 boxing match in Dayton, Ohio between Sugar Ray Leonard and Mansfield, Ohio prizefighter Art McKnight.
- The anti-Vietnam War Movement from the perspective of budding activist and future U.S. representative James R. Roebuck, a northern-born African American who studied at the University of Virginia during the late 1960s/early 1970s.
- Fe26 is a 16mm short film by Kevin Jerome Everson that follows two gentlemen around the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio and examines the tensions between illegal work -in this case, the stealing of manhole covers and copper piping--and the basic survival tactics that exist in areas of high unemployment.
- Set in the 1970's, Hampton follows Black Voices, a gospel choir based at the University of Virginia, as it prepares for a performance in Hampton Roads, embarks on a two-hour bus ride to the concert venue, and then returns to campus after a triumphant performance. With a particular focus on the bus driver (Sandy Williams IV), the film captures the wide range of processes, relationships, emotions, and formal gestures operating in African-American gospel music.
- The months of June July are represented with peonies and the year 2020.
- Rita Larson's Boy portrays ten actors auditioning for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. Rita Larson's Boy is one of three films included in the Tombigbee Chronicles Number Two. The series of films are based on famous people and objects from Columbus, Mississippi. The actor Nathaniel Taylor, raised in Columbus, portrayed Rollo Larson (Rita Larson's boy) in the television series Sanford and Son. Tombigbee is the river the runs though Columbus.
- An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.
- Two University of Virginia grapplers take instruction.
- The end of a lovely evening, July 4th weekend, Detroit.
- 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.
- An exhilarating new work about the American artist Carolee Schneemann, the trailblazing multi-hyphenate (film, video, performance, installation) whose work continues to defy cultural gravity. Montréal filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska interweaves Schneemann's films and documentation with poetic, kinetic mediations concerning art-making, feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity.
- Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- Paulette Jones Morant waxes poetically about being one of the first Black Women scholastic athletes at the University of Virginia.
- Three generations of the Carr family wax poetic about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.
- Telethon is about two talented acts waiting to perform in Sammy Davis Jr.'s ill-fated 1973 telethon for highway safety. Actress Esosa Edosomwan portrays singer/dancer/performer Lola Falana as she prepares for her appearance and takes her bow. Repetition, practice, routines, timing, patience, applause and keeping the balls in the air. Both backstage and on stage, where "the minutes seem like hours".
- The" last days" of Alessandro de' Medici, son of an African servant woman, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532. De Medici was assassinated by his cousin Lorenzino five years into his rule.
- Recovery is a 16mm film about an Airman training to be a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing, in Columbus, Mississippi.
- "How Can I Ever Be Late" takes the tarmac arrival of Sly and the Family Stone as a point of departure: African American students of the University of Virginia greet the band at the airport in 1973.
- The comings and goings in front of a house on Empire Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Loosely inspired by the eight hour 1964 Andy Warhol film "Empire".
- Fastest Man in the State features Kent Merritt waxing poetically about being one of the first four Black scholarship athletes at the University of Virginia.
- North Mulberry Street is at the crossing of the freight trains that travel though Mansfield, Ohio.
- Based on the hit record by the Ohio based gospel group The Brown Singers.
- R-15 is about the material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and the cool in the summer.
- Goddess is inspired by a stag film produced by American photographer Garry Winogrand and the corrupt police of Richland County, Ohio circa 1960s-1970s.
- Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg was the US Army base in Germany where Pleas Everson, the filmmaker's uncle, served in the 1960s.
- West Lounge is about an unfortunate event in Columbus, Mississippi as told by an unreliable narrator.
- Pleas 'Dinky' Everson Jr. tunes his vintage Pontiac with the 1924-26 patent pended Handee Wrench invented by the late J. Sisolok of Mansfield Ohio.
- Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.
- The famous actor Nathaniel Jitahadi Taylor waxes poetically on dancers, painters, actors and filmmakers.