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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.
- Round Seven revisits, in seven parts, the famous 1978 boxing match in Dayton, Ohio between Sugar Ray Leonard and Mansfield, Ohio prizefighter Art McKnight.
- 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.
- Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg was the US Army base in Germany where Pleas Everson, the filmmaker's uncle, served in the 1960s.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- North Mulberry Street is at the crossing of the freight trains that travel though Mansfield, Ohio.
- 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.
- 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.
- Westinghouse Three is a silent film featuring an old consumer product produced at the Westinghouse factory in the filmmaker's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio in the 1960's.
- 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.
- The 'Daily Roster' is called into action at a Columbus, Mississippi firehouse. Filmed in 16mm b/w.
- Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.
- The end of a lovely evening, July 4th weekend, Detroit.
- 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.
- 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".
- The months of June July are represented with peonies and the year 2020.
- Portrait based on the first cinematic representation of Afro-American intimacy in the 1898 film Something Good-Negro Kiss.
- West Lounge is about an unfortunate event in Columbus, Mississippi as told by an unreliable narrator.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Paulette Jones Morant waxes poetically about being one of the first Black Women scholastic athletes at the University of Virginia.
- Three months in the year 2020 - May June July - are represented with peonies, fireflies and a roller skater.
- R-15 is about the material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and the cool in the summer.
- A Smart car blindly learns how to parallel park at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio graduated the brilliant Jesse Owens.
- "Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white video, and spoken in Italian, the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi. This short film sets the stage for Everson's upcoming feature, "Rhino" that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood, through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher (Mannix).
- "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.
- During an Ear, Nose and Throat examination, Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event that she eye witnessed.
- 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.
- The "I" and "S" of "Lives" are the smoothest area of resistance. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) navigates the letters on the pavement of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. on a summer afternoon, 2020.
- Goddess is inspired by a stag film produced by American photographer Garry Winogrand and the corrupt police of Richland County, Ohio circa 1960s-1970s.
- 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.
- Improvement Association features Malik Hudgins, a lifelong member of the UNIA and resident of Philadelphia PA, waxing poetically about life.
- A 'Partial Differential Equation' is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin.
- Firefighter Derron Everson lists the most requested emergencies in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
- July has fireflies illuminating their very temporary surroundings.
- The full moon somewhat visible on a November night in Cape Charles, Virginia. The Black Vulture is the native bird of Cape Charles.
- Another take on the Lumiere Brothers' classic 1895 film, here, fans leaving a football game in North Carolina.
- 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.
- Music from the Edge of the Allegheny Plateau is loosely based on William Klein's 1980 documentary, "The Little Richard Story". The city of Mansfield Ohio sits at the Allegheny Plateau and has an incredible range of musical talent. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, with major support from the Bentson Foundation.
- 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.
- Polly One is about 99% totality. Filmed in 16mm, in Saluda, North Carolina, during the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.
- Cardinal observes bird-watchers looking for the state bird of Ohio.
- Two University of Virginia workers share a drink and conversation at a local nightclub. One worker is a phlebotomist and the other is a former EKG technician who has relocated from New Mexico and works now in the university cafeteria. Inspired by the 1973 film "The Mack" starring Max Julian and Richard Pryor.