Kevin Jerome Everson

Projected on a freestanding wall in the center of the gallery is Everson’s new dual-channel projection Opel, which reflects on Everson’s...

A film with found footage about a couple enjoying a beautiful day, long walks and a firearm, a blanket, food, sex and art. It references...

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long,...

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long,...

"July" has fireflies luminating their very temporary surroundings.

Rough and Unequal: Oceanis Procellarum (2017) is a single channel film about the beautiful lunar surface.

Set in Charlottesville during the early 1990s, "Pride" follows an aspiring writer as she finalises stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student...

Ninety, Ninety-Five is about not quite succeeding and the old-school way of making spirits.

Stoplight Liberty focuses on a single intersection in Columbus, Mississippi.

Black vulture is the native bird of Cape Charles Virginia where the full moon was somewhat visible.

In Chevelle, Mansfield, Ohio, native Kevin Jerome Everson captures two workhorse GM cars at a moment of drastic transformation. A junkyard crusher...

In Chevelle, Mansfield, Ohio, native Kevin Jerome Everson captures two workhorse GM cars at a moment of drastic transformation. A junkyard crusher...

In Chevelle, Mansfield, Ohio, native Kevin Jerome Everson captures two workhorse GM cars at a moment of drastic transformation. A junkyard crusher...

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ -...

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ -...

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ -...

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ -...

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.

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.

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...

A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez,...

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...

Kevin Jerome Everson’s unique observational gaze collapses Hollywood histrionics and American carceral history into one frame, as a Moscow...

Titled after the United States Federal Court decree that forced the closure of the infamously overcrowded Ohio State Reformatory, Everson’s...

Kevin Jerome Everson’s unique observational gaze collapses Hollywood histrionics and American carceral history into one frame, as a Moscow...

Titled after the United States Federal Court decree that forced the closure of the infamously overcrowded Ohio State Reformatory, Everson’s...

Kevin Jerome Everson’s unique observational gaze collapses Hollywood histrionics and American carceral history into one frame, as a Moscow...

Kevin Jerome Everson’s unique observational gaze collapses Hollywood histrionics and American carceral history into one frame, as a Moscow...

Titled after the United States Federal Court decree that forced the closure of the infamously overcrowded Ohio State Reformatory, Everson’s...

Titled after the United States Federal Court decree that forced the closure of the infamously overcrowded Ohio State Reformatory, Everson’s...

The artist travels through the Panama Canal, filming 10-minute reels of 16mm to create an almost abstract journey modulated in time through the light...

Lead is a tale of an early 20th Century Robin Hood, based on a story by James Williams, involving jumping trains and throwing coal off for needy...

Pleas “Dinky” Everson tunes his vintage Pontiac with the 1924–26 patent-pended Handee Wrench invented by the late J. Sisolok of...

"A 16mm cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Conceived...

"Weidle's" was a delicatessen in the artist's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio that serviced the Northside community. In this 16mm silent short film, a...

Two gentlemen making a living hustling metal in Cleveland, Ohio.

Two gentlemen making a living hustling metal in Cleveland, Ohio.

Two gentlemen making a living hustling metal in Cleveland, Ohio.

Employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County.

Employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County.

Employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County.

In this film, double exposure creates a layered effect of time playing on an old-fashioned pastime.

The months of May, June, and July are represented with peonies, fireflies, and the year 2020. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) traverses Black Lives...

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long,...

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long,...

This immersive eight-hour documentary follows workers in a Virginia factory over the course of an entire day, from clock-in to clock-out. Long,...

by Kevin Jerome Everson

by Kevin Jerome Everson

by Kevin Jerome Everson

by Kevin Jerome Everson

by Kevin Jerome Everson

KJE captures the grand finale of Emancipation Day, the annual Detroit River Fireworks, in 2014. Founded by Walter Perry, Emancipation Day was...

A car is getting thrashed.

A car is getting thrashed.

SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The...

by Kevin Jerome Everson

Zoologist Maya Perry of the Detroit Zoo waxes poetically about returning the Puerto Rican Crested Toad back to the wild.

A film about the result of labor. A couple uses their hard earned wages in search of furniture, citizens’ leisurely water skiing and fishing....

In Kevin Jerome Everson’s deeply affecting Ears, Nose and Throat, a woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical...

A young man walks through the lot of a drive-in theatre on the day of a double feature.

Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.

A young man walks through the lot of a drive-in theatre on the day of a double feature.

Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.

Something Else is a film about found footage as subject matter and Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia 1971 expressing her thoughts about the upcoming Miss...

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of...

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...

A very different Dorothy ... a much different Oz.

Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of...

A beautifully wrought superimposition in black-and-white, MANSFIELD PRODUCT COMPANY layers a crane demolishing a car with two young men installing a...

Kevin Jerome Everson's single-take film of a street hustler's sleight-of-hand game takes its place in a rowdy crowd of onlookers. The camera stays...

One of several Kevin Jerome Everson pieces regarding African-American rodeo riders, SECOND PLACE brings us inside the big show. The jerkily pixilated...

Radiating the radical simplicity of a Lumière actuality, THE MAYBERRY PRACTICE CALF shows an African-American cowboy roping a hunk of tire...

Charlie Smith recalls segregation, working construction and moonshine. But the real subject of this documentary short is the septuagenarian's wry...

In a 2014 artist statement, Kevin Jerome Everson wrote, "The main thing I like doing is filming people of African descent, black folks, who are...

A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's...

Described as being based on a play by Talaya Delaney, Kevin Jerome Everson' silent HOUSE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY is not your typical stage adaptation....

Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. High contrast black-and-white footage creates its own sound on the audio track. The title of the film is taken from...

Famous actor Nathaniel Jitahadi Taylor, who played the role of “Rollo Larson” on the 70’s television series Sanford and Son, waxes...

Preparing a surface for re-representation.

A glance at the fancy moves by the Mansfield Senior High football team in Mansfield, Ohio.

A multiple exposure of multitasking.

An attempt to exhibit the “sweet science” in an elegant way.

The material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and cool in the summer.

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...

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...

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...

A short film that "channels the 1966 Cleveland Uprising." - MoMA

"First Team Offense" is made up of Bertha Everson's great grandchildren. Featuring a custom helmet created by Becca McCharen-Tran/Chromat. A short...

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...

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...

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...

"First Team Offense" is made up of Bertha Everson's great grandchildren. Featuring a custom helmet created by Becca McCharen-Tran/Chromat. A short...

This film presents three generations of the Carr family waxing poetically about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.

This film presents three generations of the Carr family waxing poetically about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.

This film presents three generations of the Carr family waxing poetically about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.

The Golden Age of Fiah is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning Cleveland, Ohio. Though a series of...

The Golden Age of Fiah is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning Cleveland, Ohio. Though a series of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shot in a single, handheld, eleven-minute black-and-white take, Old Cat captures a slow but pleasant motorboat journey along a river in Virginia.

Round Seven centres on mysterious occurrences in and around the city of Mansfield, Ohio, including UFO sightings, the closing of Mansfield Tire and...

An enactment of the last days of Alessandro de’ Medici, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532. De Medici, born to an African servant...

Historic UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, are evoked through memory, report and gesture.

A gentleman recalls the play-by-play of the 1978 boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Art McKnight, local prizefighter from Mansfield, Ohio.

The Citizens includes found footage of Mohammad Ali talking about life, Althea Gibson returning home as a champion, Fidel Castro playing baseball and...

In The Release, professional dancers enact a classic football gesture as a rhythmic dance. Intentionally slowing down the speed of 16mm film, Everson...

Eason is inspired by the life of Rev. James Walker Hood Eason (1886-1923), an early leader of Philadelphia’s Universal Negro Improvement...

A memorial cake is carefully cut, served and preserved.

Emergency Needs considers the 1968 Hough Riots and the Glenville Shootout in Cleveland, Ohio, and the response to the crisis, as observed in color...

We Demand revisits a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University of Virginia in 1970, during the height of the anti-Vietnam...

1940s identification photographs document the workers of a factory in one of the first predominantly Black neighborhoods in Mansfield, Ohio.

The Lumière Brothers’ first film is reimagined at a job site in Columbus, Mississippi.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

A riff on the Lumière Brothers’ first film, capturing an audience’s exodus from a football stadium in Salisbury, North Carolina.

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...

2009, 5 minutes

2007, 3 minutes

2008, 2 minutes

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

Everson staged the films in Georgia, Mississippi, and Ohio (the first three films are named for those places’ state birds), inviting family...

Company Line is a film about one of the first predominately Black neighborhoods in Mansfield Ohio. The title, Company Line, refers to the name...

American Motor Company (2010) is a film about mid-20th century African American migration. Has two men installing a billboard. The billboard is...

Filmed during the August 2017 solar eclipse, Polly One is about ninety-nine percent totality.

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...

Historical reenactments of athletes performing various sports at the University of Virginia are seen as Kent Merritt, one of the first African...

We Demand revisits a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University of Virginia in 1970, during the height of the anti-Vietnam...

A study in 99 percent totality filmed during the 2017 eclipse.

140 Over 90 is about the crisis of hypertension in the Black community.

What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne...

What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne...

What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne...

What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne...

Lake Idlewild is the idyllic Black resort town of Idlewild Michigan, is where Danielle Thesiger rows.

Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of...

Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of...

Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of...

A corrupt Police Dept produced several films. This is what they could have been like.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez,...

A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

U of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976 is based on a photograph taken in the mid 1970s of two African Americans playing foosball. note- this film is...

by Kevin Jerome Everson

by Kevin Jerome Everson

Rappers and gospel singers, on the streets and in their homes—music from the edge of the allegheny plateau presents different generations from...

In Kevin Jerome Everson’s deeply affecting Ears, Nose and Throat, a woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical...

In Kevin Jerome Everson’s deeply affecting Ears, Nose and Throat, a woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical...

SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The...

SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The...

SPICEBUSH interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, luck. landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The...

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.

Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.

Improvement Association features Malik Hudgins, a lifelong member of the UNIA and resident of Philadelphia PA, waxing poetically about life.

Second and Lee is a cautionary tale about when not to run. It uses archival reportage and voiceover recollection to trace through repetitive...

A short film in which we see different versions of different tragic events in the countryside of the American South. For his film, Everson used a...

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Traveling Shoes is based on the hit record by the Ohio-based gospel group, The Brown Singers.

Betty and a candle

A silent portrait of the funeral of Mary Louise Everson Humphries Tubbs

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Kevin Jerome Everson and his collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland,...

Richland Black & White

The Barrel is about a proprietor of a liquor store in Mississippi taking inventory.

Union illustrates the Virginia Union University football team working together.

A new film by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold. Part of the Black Fire UVA series.

Two University of Virginia grapplers take instructions.

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.

A group of workers in Pensacola, Florida clean up after the Deepwater Horizon Spill.

A 16mm film about an Airman training to be a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing, in Columbus, Mississippi.

A 16mm film about an Airman training to be a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing, in Columbus, Mississippi.

A 16mm film about an Airman training to be a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing, in Columbus, Mississippi.

A partial differential equation is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin.

"Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short...

Sanfield is a film about airmen training and working at Columbus Air Force Base 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi. Through an...

A meditation on the speed of an Opel car.

Bird-watchers looking for the state bird of Ohio.

A film about a birdwatcher looking for the state bird of Mississippi.

Westinghouse One is about an old consumer product produced at the Westinghouse factory in Mansfield, Ohio in the 1960s.

The art of the cutaway.

by Kevin Jerome Everson.

Portrait based on the first cinematic representation of Afro-American intimacy in the 1898 film Something Good-Negro Kiss.

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

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...

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...

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

Short film in which we see DeCarrio Couley shadow boxing.

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...

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

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...

Bird watching

Three Pontiacs and a Buick Regal becoming something entirely different.

Lost Nothing is the subject Willie James Crittenden waxes poetically about.

A man blows out the 93 candles on his birthday cake in slow motion and B&W.

Inventory is based on Želimir Žilnik’s classic Inventory. A quick succession of soldiers explain how they ended up in military life at the...

Home (2008) is about disappointment in northern Ohio. (super-8, 1:30, black and white)

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

The ForFour smart car blindly circles the Olympic Stadium in Berlin German, site of Jesse Owens’ 4 Gold Medal Haul at the 1936 Games. East Tech...

Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

A driver is learning how to parallel park an Opel Rekord C at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany.

Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

The "I" and "S" of "Lives" are the smoothest area of resistance. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) navigates the letters on the pavement of Black...

An Opel ‘muscle car’, makes its way around and around the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany.