Kevin Jerome Everson: Solo and Collaborative Films

Presented by Mini Mart City Park.

Kevin Jerome Everson’s work and art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film – 12 features and more than 200 short form solo and collaborative works. Eleven of his recent short films (16mm, presented digitally, 2017-2024) will be presented in this program. Kevin Jerome Everson and frequent collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai will be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Kevin Jerome Everson’s work and art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film – 12 features and more than 200 short form solo and collaborative works. Eleven of his recent short films will be presented including Practice, Practice, Practice, (10 min, 2024), a portrait of Richard Bradley who tore down the Confederate flag flown at City Hall in San Francisco in 1984; Hazel (12 min, 2023) a fictionalized recreation of Eddie Hazel's famous 10-minute guitar solo on the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain”; Condor (8 min, 2019), filmed over the coast of Chile in 2019 during a total solar eclipse; and Glenville (2 min, 2020), where Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil I. Pedizisai update the 1898 film Something Good- Negro Kiss, which features the first representation of African American intimacy in cinema history.

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The work of Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, Ohio; lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) has been the subject of mid-career retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Cinema du Reel, and Centre Pompidou, among others. He has screened his films at international film festivals and museums including Sundance, Toronto, NYFF, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Black Star, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington D.C. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennale.

Kahlil I. Pedizisai is a multi-media artist/documentarian working in the mediums of photography, film, and audio. He has worked as director, cinematographer, assistant director, and sound recordist over the past three decades including several collaborations, since 2007, with Kevin Jerome Everson. Pedizisai is currently an Artist-in-Residence and Professor at Linfield University in Oregon.