{"id":1072,"date":"2003-10-16T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T09:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:50","slug":"very-short-films-by-kevin-everson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/16\/very-short-films-by-kevin-everson\/","title":{"rendered":"(Very) Short Films By Kevin Everson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, October 16, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>Kevin Everson in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em><span style=\"font-style:normal\">The relentlessness of everyday life, as well as its beauty, is the subject of Kevin Everson\u2019s twenty-odd short films made over the past eight years.\u00a0 Focusing on working-class African-Americans, these brief, intense works are fictional, but mimic documentary in their naturalism and attention to the material life, tasks and gestures of their protagonists. Correctional officers describe their past and present employment in <\/span>Eleven Eight Two<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (1997) and <\/span>Six Positions<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (1998); in <\/span>Merger <span style=\"font-style:normal\">(1999) a disgruntled bank teller has a system for the morning commute; a poem by Vincent Katz is given visual interpretation in <\/span>Fumble<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2002); set in contemporary Rome,<\/span> Sportello Quattro<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2002) explores immigration, work and community among people of color;<\/span> Second Shift<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (1999) reveals a correctional officer\u2019s daily routine of gaining access to the correctional facility; a teenage taxi driver must multitask to keep his job in <\/span>72 <span style=\"font-style:normal\">(2002); in <\/span>A Week in the Hole<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2001) a factory worker adjusts to materials, time and space and personal on his first day on the job; <\/span>Imported<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (1999) shows three methods of ridding collard greens of a pesky insect; migration, landscape and elevation are explored in <\/span>Thermostat<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2000); particular sources of luck are the subjects of <\/span>Pick Six<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2001.) and <\/span>The Daily Number <span style=\"font-style:normal\">(2001); <\/span>Vanessa<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2002) deals with loss and Michelangelo (Jim Trainor).<\/span><\/em> 1997\u20142002, Kevin Everson, USA, ca. 70 min, various formats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 16, 2003, 8pm Kevin Everson in person! The relentlessness of everyday life, as well as its beauty, is the subject of Kevin Everson\u2019s twenty-odd short films made over the past eight years.\u00a0 Focusing on working-class African-Americans, these brief, intense works are fictional, but mimic documentary in their naturalism and attention to the material [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/16\/very-short-films-by-kevin-everson\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from (Very) Short Films By Kevin Everson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,423,481,615],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-portrait","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}