Intro
Kevin Jerome Everson 

Since the late 1990s, Kevin Jerome Everson has been working on his body of cinematic work, which already includes over 160 short film works and nine feature-length films. The film works of the influential experimental filmmaker and artist are diverse and multi-faceted, ranging from a few minutes to 8 hours (Park Lanes, 2015). Kevin Jerome Everson is known for featuring mostly black people in his films, often shown in their daily lives and activities or at work. For this reason, the artist is often taken to be a documentary filmmaker, although caution should be used when considering him in this way, as this implies a narrowing of his oeuvre. ​“Black film” cannot be exclusively about getting ​“authentic” insights into the reality of black people’s lives. No one makes this as obviously clear as Everson, by also paying high attention to the formal qualities of his works and transposing them into abstraction. His films are autonomous artistic works that defy any simplistic interpretation. Everson’s films raise various questions, which we want to explore together: ​“From which specific perspective do we look at the world? And what might be a form of seeing that would be adequate to the exhibition’s point of view?”