Kevin Jerome Everson 2 - Black Fire UVA

4 April, 2020 - 11:30
SPHINX CINEMA

Black Fire UVA
Films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

Over the last half-dozen years, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold have collaborated with their students on a series of films that examine the history of African American students and faculty at Charlottesville’s University of Virginia (UVA). 

 

 In the presence of Kevin Jerome Everson

 

Film stills courtesy the filmmakers; Trilobite-Arts DAC; Black Fire UVA; Picture Palace Pictures 

Sugarcoated Arsenic

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
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2013
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HD
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20'

A cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. The film tells the story of African American women and men who through their public and private gestures sought to create a beloved community that thrived on intellectual exchange, self-critique, and human warmth.

We Demand

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
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2016
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HD
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10'

The story of the anti-Vietnam War Movement from the perspective of James R. Roebuck, a northern- born African American who studied at the University of Virginia dur- ing the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University, Roebuck, the first African American president of UVA’s Student Council, confronted a series of political challenges and existential dilemmas.

Fastest Man in the State

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
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2017
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HD
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10'

Kent Merritt waxing poetically about being one of the first four Black scholarship athletes at the University of Virginia.

How Can I Ever Be Late

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
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2017
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HD
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10'

African American students at the University of Virginia greet the band Sly and the Family Stone at the Charlottesville airport in 1973.

Black Bus Stop

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
,
2019
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HD
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9'

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia.

Hampton

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
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US
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2019
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HD
,
7'

Finds the University of Virginia gospel choir, Black Voices, returning from a triumphant concert in Hampton Roads.