Format:
2 videodiscs (242, 278 min.)
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sound, color and black and white
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1 booklet (23 pages : black and white illustrations ; 15 cm)
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4 3/4 in. +
Edition:
2-disc Blu-ray special edition
Content:
"With 131 short films and nine features, the artist Kevin Jerome Everson may well be the most prolific American filmmaker working today. He is also the most aesthetically radical, not least because of his interrogation of the intertwined formations of blackness, labour and place. Everson pursues an abstraction that is forged through a work on the photorealist image, a formalism uniquely leavened with an attentive approach to the histories and presences of the African-American working-class individuals he films ... Everson recovers untold histories and minor figures of African-American life in the South and Midwest, in the wake of the Second Great Migration, which took millions of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West between 1940 and 1970. Trained as a visual artist, seasoned in sculpture, street photography, painting and installation, he adopted filmmaking as his primary practice in 1997, using found footage, portraiture, re-enactment, documentary, archival historiography and performance art ... Everson's films investigate the expressive capacities, conditions and materialities of unseen craft or marginalised gestures. Various tasks, processes and actions are performed ritually for the camera. Corporeal movement operates at once as training, grind, and zone of contingency: a hospital worker sorts surgical implements, dancers energetically krump (Erie, 2010), an elderly beauty-school instructor demonstrates hair-conditioning techniques, a water-skier glides, a dam worker surveys (The Island of St. Matthews, 2013), football players practise scrimmage moves (Tygers, 2014), cowboys and cowgirls practise the art of calf-roping and lassoing for the rodeo (Ten Five in the Grass, 2012). Sport and toil, leisure and ceremony, all elaborate a poetics of performance"--Second Run website
Content:
Education, landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The title of the film refers to the state butterfly of Mississippi, the Spicebush Swallowtail
Content:
The citizens of Westport, a community just west of Columbus, Mississippi, reminisce about the 1973 flood of the Tombigbee River
Note:
Films in this collection were originally produced 2005-2020
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Title information and summaries from booklet
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Full screen (1.33:1) and wide screen (1.78:1)
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Spicebush
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The island of St. Matthews
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Tonsler Park
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Fe26
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Sound that
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Ears, nose and throat
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Erie
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Old Cat
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Company line
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BZV
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Ten five in the grass
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Grand finale
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Three quarters
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Eason
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IFO
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Rams 23 Blue Bears 21
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Polly one
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Round seven
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Union
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Sanfield
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Brown thrasher
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Blu-ray, all regions; 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio; LPCM 2.0 stereo
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In English
Language:
English
Keywords:
Film
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Blu-Ray-Disc
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