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Kevin Jerome Everson

Hazel (Dual)

Vidéo | 16mm | noir et blanc | 12:19 | USA | 2023

Hazel (dual) is a split screen film, shot in 16mm b/w, inspired by the legendary recording of the underrated guitarist Eddie Hazel’s (1950-1993) ten-minute guitar solo on “Maggot Brain”, the title track to Funkadelic’s 1971 album . The film is the fictitious moment when bandleader George Clinton “misleads” the guitarist Eddie Hazel to record what is considered one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded. Performed by actor and musician Ricky Goldman whose previous collaborations with the artist include leading roles in the short films It Seems to Hang On (US, 2015, Venice Film Festival); We Demand, co- directed with Claudrena N. Harold (US, 2016, Berlinale 'Forum Expanded' and Gospel Hill. co-directed with Claudrena N. Harold (US, 2022, Chicago Intl FF).

Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965 Mansfield, Ohio U.S.) B.F.A. University of Akron; M.F.A. Ohio University. Lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia, US. Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts, University of Virginia Everson's work and practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film – 12 features and more than 200 solo and collaobrative short form works. He has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alpert Award in Film/Video, the Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities, the American Academy in Rome Prize, the American Academy in Berlin Prize and artist grants from Creative Capital, National Endowment of the Arts, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Wexner Center for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His artwork has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, BlackStar, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Ontario, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, Harvard Film Archive, Cinematek Brussels/Courtisane and presented at international film festivals and art institutions including Berlin, Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Venice, BFI/London, NYFF, BlackStar, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, MOCA, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MoMA, NY and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington D.C.. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennale in Mechelen, Belgium. A 3 DVD Boxed Set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011 and a DVD dedicated to films focusing on the rituals and gestures of labor, I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works was released by VDB in summer 2017. The DVD contains the feature film Quality Control (2011), included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The two disc blu-ray How You Live Your Story: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson was released by the UK based boutique label Second Run DVD in Fall 2020. Everson's films are represented and/or distributed by Picture Palace Pictures, New York.