EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

FIFTEEN AN HOUR
Kevin J. Everson
Fifteen An Hour entspricht dem Lohn, den
die Nachtarbeiter für die Reinigung des
Strands von Pensacola, Florida, erhielten.
Fifteen An Hour is the amount of pay the
nighttime workers received for cleaning the
beaches of Pensacola, Florida.
Kevin Jerome Everson. ›I'm hanging out,
coolin’, on the frames that connect the necessity
and the coincidence. Formally, that is.‹
My films and artwork are about responding to
daily materials, conditions, tasks and gestures
of people of African descent. These materials,
systems, tasks and gestures are repositioned
through a variety of mediums such
as photography, film, sculpture, artist books
and paintings. The results usually have a formal
reference to art history and resemble objects
or images seen in working class culture.
Over the past twelve years I have completed
three feature films and almost fifty short
16mm, 35mm and digital films about the
working class culture of Black Americans.
The films consist of the relentlessness of
every day life, as well as its beauty-and have
a naturalistic, almost documentary-like texture.
Recently I have been responding to the
performance of peoples of African descent in
old film footage as if it were theatre.
�USA 2010, Video, 6:00
�Director, script, camera, editing
Kevin Jerome Everson
�Distribution Kevin Jerome Everson
COMCA’AC
Pedro Jimenez
Die Comca'ac (die sprechenden Menschen) sind ein kleiner
Stamm von Eingeborenen im Bundesstaat Sonora, Mexiko. Mit
einer großartigen Kosmogonie, die auf Sternen und Liedern basiert,
leben und singen die Comca'ac sich ihren Weg durch ihre
armselige Realität. Dies ist ein kleines Portrait darüber, wie diese
Menschen sprechen und singen, um auf dieser Welt gehört
zu werden.
The Comca'ac (the people who speak) are a small native community
from the state of Sonora, Mexico. With a great cosmogony
based on the stars and the songs, the Comca'ac live
and sing their way through their poor reality. This is a small portrait
of how these people talk and sing to prevail in this earth.
Pedro Jimenez, *1974, has explored the experimental and documentary
film since he took a workshop with experimental filmmaker
Naomi Uman in 1998. He has worked in several featured
films in Mexico, and his work has reached the screen in many
countries, such as France, Germany, Korea, England, Colombia,
Guatemala and Mexico.
�MEX 2010, Video, 7:50
�Director, script, camera, editing Pedro Jimenez
�Distribution NIMA Films
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