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Real to Reel: The Archive

Screening and conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson & Justin Randolph Thompson

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18.12.24

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Black History Month Florence, conference, presentations, projection, Standard, Talk

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Real to Reel: The Archive

A screening and conversation with acclaimed filmmaker and educator

Kevin Jerome Everson and

Justin Randolph Thompson Director of The Recovery Plan

and Black History Month Florence

 

This event is based on a brief residence of the artist Kevin Jerome Everson at Murate Art District between December 13th and December 19th 2024 within the context of MAD’s  collaboration with Black History Month Florence. MAD has hosted a multi-year residency for Black Archive Alliance over the past years and Everson’s project is dedicated to archival research on African American author, Actor and Journalist William Demby who was based in Rome and Casentino for two decades from 1947. Everson’s intends to develop the groundwork and early production for an experimental film dedicated to Demby and his archive in collaboration with Black History Month Florence and The Recovery Plan.

 

Celebrated and prolific filmmaker and educator Kevin Jerome Everson is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Rome Prize Fellowship, a Heinz Award and more having exhibited at illustrious museum such as the Tate Modern in London, MOMA in New York and in film festivals like Sundance, the Venice Biennial of Cinema and Toronto International Film Festival. This discussion and screening revolves around Everson’s extensive filmography dedicated to the archive through the use of found footage, the reconstruction of archival photographs and the collecting of oral histories. The event is in collaboration with Murate Art District, Fondazione Mus.e, Comune di Firenze and the RFK International House of Human Rights.

Kevin Jerome Everson

Artist-filmmaker

Kevin Jerome Everson (born 1965) is an artist working in film, painting, sculpture, and photography. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio and currently resides in Virginia. He holds an MFA from Ohio University, and a BFA from the University of Akron, and is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

 

Everson’s films frequently depict people working and living in working-class communities. Many of his works focus on the migration of African... American communities and individuals from the American South northward in search of work.[1] “Everson rejects the role of cultural explainer in his work, opting instead to place the burden of understanding on the audience and its own labor. In this way, he has carved a place for himself outside both the typical expectations of documentary and the conventions of representational fiction, attempting to work from the materials of the worlds he encounters to create something else.”[2]

 

Everson frequently employs hand-held camerawork and uses 16mm to create many of his films. His work has been the subject of retrospective screenings at Media City Film Festival (2011), Tate Modern (2017), online at Mubi (2018), and Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou (2019)

 

Everson has directed nearly a dozen feature-length films and over 100 short films.

 

Exhibitions

Everson’s films have been the subject of mid-career retrospectives at the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (February 2017); Viennale (2014); Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland (2012), The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY and Media City Film Festival (2011) and Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2009. His work has been featured at the 2008, 2012, and 2017 Whitney Biennials, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Media City Film Festivals, and the 2013 Sharjah Biennial.
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Justin Randolph Thompson

co-founder and director Black History Month Florence

Justin Randolph Thompson is a new media artist, cultural facilitator and educator born in Peekskill, NY in ’79. Living between Italy and the US since 1999, Thompson is Co-Founder and Director of Black History Month Florence, a multi-faceted exploration of African and African Diasporic cultures in the context of Italy founded in 2016. Thompson is a recipient of a Louise Comfort Tiffany Award, a Franklin Furnace Fund Award, a Visual Artist Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, two... Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, A Jerome Fellowship from Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park. His life and work seek to deepen the discussions around socio-cultural stratification and hierarchical organization by employing fleeting temporary communities as monuments and fostering projects that connect academic discourse social activism and DIY networking strategies in annual and biennial gathering, sharing and gestures of collectivity.

 

 
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