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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Island of Saint Matthews is a 16mm feature film about the loss of family history in the form of heirlooms and photographs. Years ago filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt about old family photographs. Her reply-that "we lost them in the flood" was the catalyst for this film, a poem and paean to the citizens of Westport, a community just west of Columbus, Mississippi, and the direct and oblique remnants of the 1973 flood of the Tombigbee River. Scenarios depicted include a water skier on the Tombigbee; a river baptism; a meeting with an insurance agent about flood coverage; the control room of the lock and dam; the parking lot of a church; the ringing of the St. Matthews bell.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.
- Three months in the year 2020 - May June July - are represented with peonies, fireflies and a roller skater.
- Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 'Partial Differential Equation' is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin.
- 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.
- Ten Five in the Grass is a 16mm film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi, in the summer of 2011, the title refers to the type of rope used to capture fast calves. The film was awarded a Jury Prize at the 2012 Oberhausen Film Festival.
- Maya Perry waxes poetically about returning the Puerto Rican Crested Toad back to the wild.
- Polly One is about 99% totality. Filmed in 16mm, in Saluda, North Carolina, during the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.
- 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.
- Emergency Needs is an experimental work, considering the July 1968 Hough Riots and the Glenville Shootout in Cleveland, Ohio and the response to the crisis, as observed in color footage from a local press conference, by Mayor Carl B. Stokes. Stokes, the first Black mayor of a major American city, maintains calm and measured composure; his demeanor and words help diffuse an already incendiary situation. Actress Esosa Edosomwan, dressed in suit and tie, delivers Stokes' statements. The footage of Stokes and filmed performance of Edosomwan is rendered in split screen and combined with footage/reportage from the streets. The film was a commission of IFFR's Meet the Maestro homage to the films of Gus Van Sant and was a featured work in the 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York City.
- A 16mm film of the 14th Flying Training Wing training and working at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi.
- During an Ear, Nose and Throat examination, Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event that she eye witnessed.
- "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 end of a lovely evening, July 4th weekend, Detroit.
- Early Riser (2012) is based on Chester Himes' Cotton Comes to Harlem novel and screenplay. Early Riser 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, my parent's hometown. The cotton in the novel and film comes the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Filmed noir style, the film depicts the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event concerning the demise of his friend Early Riser.
- R-15 is about the material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and the cool in the summer.
- The famous actor Nathaniel Jitahadi Taylor waxes poetically on dancers, painters, actors and filmmakers.
- 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.
- An aspiring writer finalizes stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia. Over a hectic two-day period in the early 1990's, she puts the finishing touches on the upcoming issue.
- 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.
- Another take on the Lumiere Brothers' classic 1895 film, here, fans leaving a football game in North Carolina.
- A journey, in black and white 16mm, traveling south to north through the Panama Canal.
- 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 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".
- 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.
- Three generations of the Carr family wax poetic about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.
- Banging on Their Bars in Rhythm, filmed on location at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfeld, Ohio which closed in 1990, features hi-contrast black and white footage which creates its own sound on the audio track. The title of the film is taken from the film script for the 1997 film Air Force One which was filmed on location at OSR.
- A neighborhood butcher in Charlottesville, Virginia prepares the goods. "Weidle's" was a delicatessen in the artist's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio that serviced the Northside community.
- 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.
- A collection of sfumato-tinged bottles shot with tight framing and shallow focus provides a mesmeric portrait of a man and a community in Northeast Ohio, where "Brown and Clear" commonly refer to "Bourbon and Vodka".
- IFO is about three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, the filmmaker's hometown. One of several recent and upcoming films featuring people, events, and incidents centered in Mansfield.
- 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.
- Hazel (dual) is a split screen film, shot in 16mm b/w, inspired by the legendary recording of the underrated guitarist Eddie Hazel's (1950-1993) ten-minute guitar solo on "Maggot Brain", the title track to Funkadelic's 1971 album.
- The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white. Condor is the national bird of Chile.
- Based on Zelimir Zilnik's classic film "Inventur", Inventory features figures descending a staircase at the Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing, in Columbus, Mississippi.
- Richland Blue centers around films, two in particular- a stag film and a public service announcement featuring an African-American woman arrested for shoplifting- produced by the corrupt Richland County, Ohio police department in the 1960's and 1970's.
- Chevelle stars two General Motors automobiles--a Pink Chevelle and a Green Trans Am--meeting their fate, or transmuting into new forms. Detritus and art making, the crush and crash of the auto graveyard.