Скачать или смотреть BLACK FIRE UVA: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

Over the last half-dozen years, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold have collaborated with their students on a series of films that examine the history of African American students and faculty at Charlottesville's University of Virginia (UVA), an institution that had an entanglement with white supremacy long before the far-right rally of August 2017 turned international attention onto the school and the city. Everson and Harold's Black Fire films foreground the role of higher education in creating a community of strength and change, focusing both on Black empowerment — e.g., the anti–Vietnam War protests led by the first African American student-body president James R. Roebuck, or the community-building efforts of Vivian Gordon, director of the Black Studies program in the 1970s — and celebrations of everyday life, such as the daily routines of student athletes in competitive sports programs.

Six films from the Black Fire UVA series will be screened in this programme, including a sneak preview of a new collaboration. They will be preceded by 40th & State, a film about the aftermath of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and subsequent mourning within his Pentecostal Church, made by recent UVA graduate and Black Fire participant Micah Ariel Watson.

Co-presented with Vertical Features.

40th & State (dir. Micah Ariel Watson \ USA 2018 \ 14 min. \ Digital)

How Can I Ever Be Late (dirs. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold \ USA 2017 \ 5 min. \ 16mm on Digital)

Fastest Man in the State (dirs. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold \ USA 2017 \ 10 min. \ 16mm on Digital)

70kg (dirs. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold \ USA 2017 \ 3 min. \ 16mm on Digital)

We Demand (dirs. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold \ USA 2016 \ 10 min. \ 16mm on Digital)

Sugarcoated Arsenic (dirs. Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena N. Harold \ USA 2013 \ 21 min. \ 16mm on Digital)

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Guest
Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson is a professor of art at the University of Virginia (UVA). His films — nine features and over 150 shorts, including eight collaborations with UVA colleague Claudrena N. Harold — have been the subject of retrospectives at Cinéma du réel, the Harvard Film Archive, Tate Modern, the Viennale, the Whitney Museum, and the Centre Pompidou. They were included in the 2008, 2012, and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, and the 2018 Carnegie International. In 2012 he received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for film/video.

Guest
Claudrena N. Harold
Claudrena N. Harold is a professor of African American and African Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She specializes in African American history, Black cultural politics, and labour history. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (04) and New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South (16), and she co-edited The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (13) and Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity (18).