Practitioners in diverse fields – from magic to metal scrapping to calf roping – perform their skills for Everson’s camera in this second screening of short films. Picking up a thread from the Quality Control programme, these works are marked by a sense of appreciation for the specialised knowledge stemming from a discipline or craft, exemplified in Ten Five in the Grass, Sound That and Three Quarters. They speak to the body of cultural artifacts Everson is building through his practice, which subvert the impetus of documentation to more evocative representations that capture a sense of workers' intellect, dedication, social and economic motives and work conditions. Bookended by two films evoking the Lumière Brothers’ 1895 film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, this screening prompts a consideration of the changing economies of formal and informal, physical and intellectual and even spectatorial labour.
Programme
Workers Leaving the Job Site, United States 2013, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min
Ten Five in the Grass, United States 2012, Super-16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 32 min
The Camps, United States 2009, 16mm, mini DV and still photographs transferred to digital, black and white and colour, sound, 4 min
We Demand, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold, United States 2016, Super-16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 10 min
Sound That, United States 2014, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 12 min
Fe26, United States 2014, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, sound, 8 min
Three Quarters, United States 2015, 16mm transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 5 min
Rams 23 Blue Bears 21, United States 2017, HD, colour, silent, 8 min
The screening is followed by a discussion with the artist and an audience Q&A.