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FOCUS ON INDEPENDENT US DOCS<br />
Kevin Jerome Everson<br />
CINNAMON<br />
(t.l.: Cannella)<br />
Ambientato a Charlottesville, Virginia, il documentario di<br />
Kevin Jerome Everson segue qualcosa di molto originale, il<br />
mondo <strong>del</strong> drag racing. Un film sperimentale con due personaggi<br />
principali afroamericani: Erin, che lavora in banca<br />
e fa la pilota, e John il meccanico. La ragazza cerca sempre<br />
la concentrazione prima <strong>del</strong>la gara, il secondo ripara e<br />
mette la macchina nelle migliori condizioni. Intorno a loro<br />
si muovono i familiari che esprimono la loro passione per<br />
le corse. Il documentario alterna materiale filmato a differenti<br />
media e stili.<br />
“I miei film e lavori artistici sono sensibili ai fenomeni<br />
quotidiani, alle condizioni, alle funzioni e le espressioni<br />
gestuali degli afroamericani. Questi fenomeni, sistemi,<br />
funzioni e espressioni gestuali sono riposizionati attraverso<br />
una varietà di media che vanno dalla fotografia, al film,<br />
alla scultura, al libro d’arte e alla pittura. Ciò che ne risulta<br />
è un riferimento formale alla storia <strong>del</strong>l’arte e a oggetti<br />
e immagini riconducibili alla cultura <strong>del</strong>la classe operaia”.<br />
Kevin Jerome Everson<br />
Biografia<br />
Kevin Jerome Everson è nato e cresciuto a Mansfield in<br />
Ohio. Ha realizzato numerosi cortometraggi, quattro dei<br />
quali selezionati al Sundance. Nel 2005 ha diretto il suo<br />
primo lungometraggio, Spicebush, una riflessione sul ritmo<br />
lavorativo e sul cambio epocale nella comunità operaia<br />
afroamericana. Film, fotografie e sculture di Everson sono<br />
stati proiettati e esposte in vari festival e musei nazionali e<br />
internazionali. Everson è docente universitario di Arte<br />
presso l’università <strong>del</strong>la Virginia. Attualmente sta lavorando<br />
alla stesura di Lowndes County con la sceneggiatrice<br />
Talaya Delaney, e a un progetto su Alessandro de’ Medici.<br />
sceneggiatura/screenplay: Kevin Jerome Everson<br />
fotografia/<strong>cinema</strong>tography: Kevin Jerome Everson<br />
montaggio/editing: Lin Qiu<br />
suono/sound: Alex Stockwell, Bruce Johnson<br />
musica/music: Judth Shatin<br />
costumi/costumes: Stephanie Owens, Konstantin Brazhnik<br />
formato/format: colore, 16mm, dv, super 8<br />
produttore/producer: Kevin Jerome Everson, Ma<strong>del</strong>eine Moly-<br />
Set in Charlottesville, Virginia, Kevin Jerome Everson’s documentary<br />
focuses on the very original world of drag racing. The<br />
experimental film has two main, African-American characters:<br />
Erin, who works in a bank and races a car, and John, the mechanic.<br />
Erin is always trying to concentrate before the races, John is<br />
always repairing and improving the car. They are surrounded by<br />
family members who express their passion for racing. The documentary<br />
alternates between filmed material and different mediums<br />
and styles.<br />
“My films and artwork are about responding to daily materials,<br />
conditions, tasks and/or gestures of people of African descent.<br />
These materials, systems, tasks and/or gestures are repositioned<br />
through a variety of mediums such as photography, film, sculpture,<br />
art books and paintings. The results usually have a formal<br />
reference to art history and resemble objects or images seen in<br />
working class culture.”<br />
Kevin Jerome Everson<br />
Biography<br />
Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield,<br />
Ohio. He has made over 25 short films, four of which have<br />
screened at Sundance. In 2005, he direct his debut feature Spicebush,<br />
a mediation on rhythms of work and the passage of time<br />
in Black American working class communities. Everson's photographs,<br />
sculptures and films have exhibited internationally at<br />
museums and film festivals. Everson is an Assistant Professor of<br />
Art at the University of Virginia. He is currently developing the<br />
narrative feature Lowndes County (with playwright Talaya<br />
Delaney) and is in pre-production on a film based loosely on<br />
Alessandro de’ Medici.<br />
neaux<br />
produzione/production: Trich Arts<br />
contatto/contacts: keverson@virginia.edu, madsockmonkee@yahoo.com,<br />
picturepalacesale@yahoo.com, www.cinnamonthemovie.com<br />
durata/running time: 71’<br />
origine/country: Stati Uniti 2006<br />
Filmografia/Filmography<br />
Eleven Eighty-Two (1997, cm), Six Positions (1998, cm), Imported (1999, cm), Merger (1999, cm), Second Shift (1999, cm), Thermostat<br />
(2000, cm), Avenues (2000, cm), Room Temperature (2001, cm), The Daily Number (2001, cm), 72 (2002, cm), Pick Six<br />
(2001, cm), A Week in the Hole (2001, cm), Special Man (2002, cm), Fumble (2002, cm), Un Euro Venti Due (2002, cm), Vanessa<br />
(2002, cm), Sportello Quattro (2002, cm), Pictures From Dorothy (2003, cm), Aquarius (2003, cm), Chemistry (2003, cm), From<br />
Pompei to Xenia (2003, cm), Fifeville (2005, cm), Blind Huber (2005, cm), Two-Week Vacation (2005, cm), Memoir (2005, cm),<br />
Twenty Minutes (2005, cm), Spicebush (2005), Cinnamon (2006)<br />
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