aemi @ CIFF: aemi announces international Artist in Focus 2023: Kevin Jerome Everson
Published date: 03 Nov 2023
aemi is delighted to present a programme of short works and a free masterclass by the acclaimed and prolific filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, aemi’s international artist-in-focus at CIFF 2023.
“For anyone interested in the developing practices of artist film we would strongly recommend not missing this exciting opportunity to engage directly with Kevin Jerome Everson’s work. Kevin has emerged over the past many years as a key innovator for whom every new work seems to suggest a new avenue for the expansion and development of the form. For CIFF’s Parallax programme this year we have selected a programme of works that we hope represents and showcases the scope of Kevin’s work, alongside a free masterclass with the filmmaker where he will dive into and explore his processes.” – Daniel Fitzpatrick and Alice Butler, Co-Directors aemi.
aemi @ CIFF 2023: Kevin Jerome Everson Masterclass
18 November 2023 / 15:00 / Sirius Arts Centre
This masterclass offers audiences an in-depth introduction to the artist’s influences and methodology. Having been trained in photography and engaged also in printmaking and sculpture, before turning to the medium of analog film in the late 1990’s, Everson has carried over the approach of creating bodies of work shaped around particular formal devices within his filmmaking practice. Here he will discuss the processes, procedures and materials used in his moving image practice over the past two decades. He will also discuss recurring subjects, themes and formal strategies represented in the work.
The masterclass is free but numbers are limited. Please email [email protected] to book your place.
Screening Programme :
aemi @ CIFF 2023: aemi Artist in Focus: Kevin Jerome Everson
19 November 2023 / 10:45 / Triskel Arts Centre
The screening programme will be followed by a post screening Q&A led by Laura Rascaroli with Kevin Jerome Everson.
Film information
Kevin Jerome Everson, Polly One, 2018, US, 16mm, color, silent, 6 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Cardinal, 2019, US, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w, 2.5 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, May June July, 2021, US, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w, 2.5 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, West Lounge, 2023, color, 5 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, The Daily Roster, 2023, US, b&w, 4 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Hough 66, 2023, US, b&w, silent, 7 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Emergency Needs, 2007, US, color, 7 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Century, 2012, US, color, 7 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Kadett C Three, 2021, b&w, German Language, 3 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Three Quarters, 2015, US, 16 mm, b&w, silent, 5 mins
Kevin Jerome Everson, Grand Finale, 2016, US, HD, color, sound, 5 mins
Total running time: 57 mins
Still from Three Quarters (2015) by Kevin Jerome Everson. © Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy of the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures.
Biography, Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, Ohio US) is the Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture, and film, 12 features and over 200 solo and collaborative short form works to date. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim; the Berlin Prize; the Heinz Award; the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Rome Prize. His films, which screen internationally at festivals including Sundance, IFFR, Berlinale, NYFF, Venice, Black Star and Toronto have been the subject of retrospectives at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Art Windsor-Essex/Media City Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Vienna International Shorts/Austrian Film Museum, and the Harvard Film Archive and have been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennial.
Biography Laura Rascaroli
Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media at University College Cork. Her research interests span European and world cinemas; experimental nonfiction, the essay film, and first-person cinemas; artist film and the post-medium moving image. She is the author of five research monographs including How the Essay Film Thinks (2017) and The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (2009), and the editor of four collections including Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema (2020) and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (2011). Her work has been translated into several languages. She is Editor-in-Chief of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.
We would love to see you at these very special events in Cork this November.
With best wishes,
Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick
