Still from Double Feature at the Sunset Drive-In (2024, 3 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
On Site, the moving image series at Mini Mart City Park returns with two back-to-back screening events on March 3 and 4, both featuring works by artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the majority of which have never before been screened in Seattle.
March 3rd screening at SIFF Film Center, March 4th at Mini Mart City Park
Expanding engagement with cinema via screenings and interdisciplinary programs
On Site is curated by David Dinnell, Jay Kuehner and Ellen Ito and presented in collaboration with Mini Mart City Park. This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund award from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. @seattle_neighborhoods
March 3
Kevin Jerome Everson: Solo and Collaborative Films
A program of recent films (2019-2024, 16mm presented digitally, TRT 65 min).
Kevin Jerome Everson and collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai will be in attendance.
Eleven of Everson’s recent short films will be presented including Practice, Practice, Practice, 2024, a portrait of Richard Bradley who tore down the Confederate flag flown at City Hall in San Francisco in 1984; Hazel, 2023, a fictionalized recreation of Eddie Hazel's famous 10-minute guitar solo on the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain”;and Glenville, 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.
March 4
Ten Five In The Grass: A Field Guide to Kevin Jerome Everson Solo and Collaborative films
(TRT 88 min).
The work of artist Kevin Jerome Everson evinces a singular vision across a broad swath of American life. Often focusing on the physical and material contours of labor, Everson exercises a commensurately keen eye on competitive sport, depicting the athlete in frequently unceremonious - yet no less dignified states of practice. This includes his Black Fire collaborations with co-director Claudrena N. Harold.
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.
© Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures
Special thanks to Kevin Jerome Everson, Kahlil I. Pedizisai, Claudrena N. Harold and Madeleine Molyneaux / Picture Palace Pictures
Still from Accidental Athlete (2023, 7 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold
Still from Rams 23 Blue Bears 21(2017, 8 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
