Sugarcoated Arsenic and other recent films by Kevin Jerome Everson
(68 minutes)
An evening with Kevin Jerome Everson, with an introduction and Q&A with the filmmaker.
Admissions: $5-15
Works include: Three Quarters (2015), FE 26 (2014), Sound That (2014), Sugarcoated Arsenic (2013), Workers Leaving the Job-Site (2013), Century (2012), Rita Larson’s Boy (2012).
The profound films of Kevin Jerome Everson depict the lives of working class African-Americans. From factory workers, Cleveland Water Department technicians, magicians, student activists, and actors, Everson explores these stories through an acute sensibility.
BASILICA SCREENINGS is a film series that presents an array of works from new and repertory narrative features, documentaries, experimental films, to video and media art, often with filmmakers and special guests in attendance for a discussion following the screenings. Programmed by Basilica Hudson's Film and Media curator Aily Nash, and creative directors Melissa Auf der Maur and Tony Stone.