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- Air Force Two revisits the prison scene featured in "Air Force One", filmed at the original location of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio.
- Round Seven revisits, in seven parts, the famous 1978 boxing match in Dayton, Ohio between Sugar Ray Leonard and Mansfield, Ohio prizefighter Art McKnight.
- Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- Set in the 1970's, Hampton follows Black Voices, a gospel choir based at the University of Virginia, as it prepares for a performance in Hampton Roads, embarks on a two-hour bus ride to the concert venue, and then returns to campus after a triumphant performance. With a particular focus on the bus driver (Sandy Williams IV), the film captures the wide range of processes, relationships, emotions, and formal gestures operating in African-American gospel music.
- The Island of Saint Matthews is a 16mm feature film about the loss of family history in the form of heirlooms and photographs. Years ago filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt about old family photographs. Her reply-that "we lost them in the flood" was the catalyst for this film, a poem and paean to the citizens of Westport, a community just west of Columbus, Mississippi, and the direct and oblique remnants of the 1973 flood of the Tombigbee River. Scenarios depicted include a water skier on the Tombigbee; a river baptism; a meeting with an insurance agent about flood coverage; the control room of the lock and dam; the parking lot of a church; the ringing of the St. Matthews bell.
- Paulette Jones Morant waxes poetically about being one of the first Black Women scholastic athletes at the University of Virginia.
- The famous actor Nathaniel Jitahadi Taylor waxes poetically on dancers, painters, actors and filmmakers.
- An aspiring writer finalizes stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia. Over a hectic two-day period in the early 1990's, she puts the finishing touches on the upcoming issue.
- Hazel (dual) is a split screen film, shot in 16mm b/w, inspired by the legendary recording of the underrated guitarist Eddie Hazel's (1950-1993) ten-minute guitar solo on "Maggot Brain", the title track to Funkadelic's 1971 album.
- It Seems to Hang On is based on the true story of the serial killers Alton Coleman and Debra Brown, a young Black couple who cut a violent path beginning in the summer of 1984 through the American Midwest (Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin). The dialogue spoken in the film is inspired and based on lyrics from the American soul duo (and couple) Ashford and Simpson's 1979 hit song "It Seems to Hang On". The lyrics refer to a couple struggling to hang on or to be together thought adversity. Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson's strategy was to make a film about a desperate, violent but loving couple on the run from the law. The film was shot in and around the city of Detroit, and area where Coleman and Brown committed several murders. Their crimes were horrific, and their victims were Black with the exception of one white woman, a murder that eventually led to Coleman's conviction and execution. Alton Coleman was executed in 2002. Debra Brown is doing life in a prison in Indiana. Coleman was born in 1956 in Waukegan, Illinois near Wisconsin. Debra Brown was born in 1962 in Ohio. There is no current documentation on how they met.
- The" last days" of Alessandro de' Medici, son of an African servant woman, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532. De Medici was assassinated by his cousin Lorenzino five years into his rule.
- Three months in the year 2020 - May June July - are represented with peonies, fireflies and a roller skater.
- If You Don't Watch the Way You Move features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "choSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, "Shiesty", in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine "Country Blakk" Brown only to be interrupted by a John Cage score.
- During an Ear, Nose and Throat examination, Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event that she eye witnessed.
- "Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white video, and spoken in Italian, the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi. This short film sets the stage for Everson's upcoming feature, "Rhino" that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood, through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher (Mannix).
- Park Lanes is a film that depicts the workaday routine of a factory in Virginia. It is a durational work, eight hours in length, experienced in real time. The title refers to the name of the Mansfield, Ohio bowling alley frequented by the filmmaker and his family.
- Tonsler Park (2017) observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of Election Day, November 8, 2016.
- IFO is about three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, the filmmaker's hometown. One of several recent and upcoming films featuring people, events, and incidents centered in Mansfield.
- Ten Five in the Grass is a 16mm film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi, in the summer of 2011, the title refers to the type of rope used to capture fast calves. The film was awarded a Jury Prize at the 2012 Oberhausen Film Festival.
- Sugarcoated Arsenic is a 16mm cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Conceived and written by UVA History Professor and author Claudrena Harold and directed by Harold and UVA Professor of Art, filmmaker/artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the film stars Erin Stewart (the bank teller/race driver in Everson's 2006 feature film "Cinnamon") as Vivian Gordon (the director of UVA's Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980). The film tells the story of African-American women and men who through their public and private gestures sought to create a beloved community that thrived on intellectual exchange, self-critique, and human warmth.
- The title refers to the name used by residents to describe their neighborhood, which began during the post-war migration of Blacks to the north in the late 1940s. City employees and former residents narrate accounts of past and present.
- A journey, in black and white 16mm, traveling south to north through the Panama Canal.
- July has fireflies illuminating their very temporary surroundings.
- Another take on the Lumiere Brothers' classic 1895 film, here, fans leaving a football game in North Carolina.
- Westinghouse Three is a silent film featuring an old consumer product produced at the Westinghouse factory in the filmmaker's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio in the 1960's.