• Black Bus Stop
  • How Can I Ever Be Late
  • Sugarcoated Arsenic

Black Life Presents: Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s UVA Black Fire Films

  • In Person

    Ryanaustin Dennis is cocurator of BAMPFA’s Black Life series.

A synthesis of Claudrena N. Harold’s rigorous historical research and Kevin Jerome Everson’s refined, materialist image making, the ongoing UVA Black Fire films series employs a radical, nonnarrative approach to represent the legacy of Black achievement and everyday life at the University of Virginia (UVA). Engaging students as filmmaking collaborators grounds the project within the pedagogical process, which combines historical investigation with questions of cinematic form. Each film is distinct in terms of style, and the attention to specific details, language, and gesture helps to fill the gaps in UVA’s historical record while evoking the experiences of Black students and faculty on college campuses across the country.

Films in this Screening

We Demand

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2016

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

Sugarcoated Arsenic

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2014

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  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 21 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

How Can I Ever Be Late

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2017

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 5 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

Fastest Man in the State

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2017

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

Pride

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2021

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 7 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

Hampton

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2019

FILM DETAILS 
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  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 7 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)

Black Bus Stop

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold, United States, 2019

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • DCP
  • 10 mins
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  • Picture Palace Pictures (PPP)