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three fold special section—fall 2025


THREE QUARTERS: The Cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson


Tuesday, November 18, 6 p.m.
Detroit Public Library Main Branch
5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Free admission | Link to RSVP

Introduction by Paige Wood, MCFF Regional Engagement.
Film screening curated by MCFF Artistic Director Oona Mosna.
Partners: Detroit Public Library & Detroit Narrative Agency.




Grand Finale, 5 min, digital, 2015

The end of a lovely evening, July 4th weekend, Detroit.




Something Else, 2 min, Super 8mm > digital, 2007

A film about found footage as subject matter and Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia 1971 expressing her thoughts about the upcoming Miss Black Virginia 1971 pageant.




Rhinoceros, 7.5 min, VHS > digital, 2013

Alessandro de’ Medici makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Rhinoceros resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi.



Eason, 15 min, 16mm > digital, 2016

Loosely based on the life of James Walker Hood Eason (1886-1923) a long time member of the UNIA of Philadelphia.




Three Quarters, 4 min, 16mm > digital, 2015

Magicians Donald E. Camp and Ran'D Shine rehearse close-up illusions with a deck of cards.




IFO, 10 min, 16mm > digital, 2017

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




Condor, 8 min, 16mm > digital, 2019

The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality over the Chilean coast. The condor is the national bird of Chile.




Rita Larson’s Boy, 11 min, 16mm > digital, 2012

Ten actors auditioning for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. One of a series of films based on famous people and objects from Columbus, Mississippi. The actor Nathaniel Taylor, raised in Columbus, portrayed Rollo (Rita Larson's boy) in the television series.


ABOUT KEVIN JEROME EVERSON


Kevin Jerome Everson (USA) is an artist and filmmaker born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1965. He has completed more than 300 solo and collaborative shorts and feature-length films since 1997, quietly assembling one of the most remarkable collections of contemporary African American life ever committed to cinema. Everson’s films frequently depict Black working-class communities, stretching across a variety of themes and subjects including migration, illusion, astronomy, human kinetics, entomology, musicology, ornithology, historical reenactment, and the folktale. He received a BFA from the University of Akron and an MFA from Ohio University (1990). His films have been exhibited widely at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally, including Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, BlackStar Film Festival, New York Film Festival, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Toronto International Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Locarno Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. He has received retrospectives at Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Harvard Film Archive, Tate Modern, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, Visions du Réel, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Media City Film Festival. His work has been featured at the 2008, 2012, and 2017 Whitney Biennials, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennale, and the 2024 Thailand Biennale. He has received an American Academy in Rome Prize (2002), a Herb Alpert Award (2012), a Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities (2019), an American Academy in Berlin Prize (2020), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants and commissions from Creative Capital, Just Films/Ford Foundation and Sundance Art of Non-Fiction. Media City Film Festival has screened more than 50 films by Everson since 2009. He lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia.


ABOUT PAIGE WOOD

Paige Wood is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer working across narrative and documentary film, animation, and video games — her work recognized by the likes of BlackStar Film Festival, Tribeca Festival,  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Apple. Born and based in Detroit, Paige previously served as the Supervising Producer for the Rise-Home Stories Project, which brought together artists and advocates to reimagine the stories told about land and home. She currently acts as the Supervising Producer for the Detroit Narrative Agency’s 24-25 Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. In her personal work, Paige is developing an adult-comedy series for television, a solar-punk video game, and an animated short film as her directorial debut. She is a board member of Working Films (2021) and Media City Film Festival (2025). Paige is a 2025 PAMCUT Sustainability Lab Fellow, 2024 Film Independent Episodic Lab Fellow, 2022 Gotham TV Lab Fellow, 2021-2022 USC Annenberg Civic Media Fellow, 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, and a 2019 Sundance | Knight Foundation Fellow. Often exploring serious themes in unserious ways, Paige tells stories between the realm of the surreal and all-too-real; rooted in a Black, Midwestern perspective that builds on the absurdity of everyday life.


Image credits: Film stills © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures.

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