Join us for the Washington, DC premieres of new work by filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker in person.
This program of new films includes: The I and S of Lives (2021), filmed on Washington DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza in the summer of 2020; Air Force Two (2023), filmed at the former Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio; If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (2023), featuring Derek "Dripp" Whitfield, Jr. and Taymond "ChoSkii" Hughes of the Columbus, Mississippi rap group BmE; and additional titles. (Total running time for the program is approximately 60 minutes.)
About Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson’s art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography, and film, including twelve features and more than 200 shorts. Recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Berlin Prize, Heinz Award in Art and Humanities, Alpert Award for Film/Video, and Rome Prize, Everson’s work has been featured in retrospectives at Tate Modern/Film, London; Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; and Cinematek, Brussels; the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017); the 2013 Sharjah Biennial; and the 2018 Carnegie International. Everson is Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts at University of Virginia, Charlottesville.