We are honored to welcome Kevin Jerome Everson back to Scribe for a selected screening of his films. Everson, who is one of the artists of The Great Migration: A City Transformed creating new work, will screen films that reflect on the source and destinations of the Great Migration, including: Company Line, Undefeated, Lead, House in the North Country and selected sequences from Erie.

Kevin Jerome Everson films combine scripted and documentary moments with rich elements of formalism. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working class African Americans and other people of African descent.  Everson, who has directed over 120 films, has been exhibited internationally at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Studio Museum of Harlem. He is a professor at the University of Virginia.

PROGRAMMING FOR THE GREAT MIGRATION: A CITY TRANSFORMED (1916-1934) HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE PEW CENTER FOR ARTS & HERITAGE.