A free masterclass with Kevin Jerome Everson, aemi’s ‘international artist in focus’ for the 68th Cork International Film Festival

aemi’s international artist in focus at CIFF is the acclaimed and prolific filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. 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.

aemi’s masterclass with internationally renowned filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson takes place at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh on Saturday, November 18th at 3pm.

The masterclass is free but numbers are limited. Participants should contact [email protected] to book a place.

Kevin Jerome Everson’s films will be screening at the festival in the following programme:

aemi @ CIFF 2023: aemi Artist in Focus: Kevin Jerome Everson

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.