Trilobite-Arts-DAC

Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of Election Day, November 8, 2016.

We Demand revisits a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University of Virginia in 1970, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement. The film reenacts the delivery of two sets of demands regarding action to be taken on campus and in the wider political sphere, spoken by budding activist James R. Roebuck, the first African American president of UVA’s Student Council.

Three Pontiacs and a Buick Regal becoming something entirely different.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white video, and spoken in Italian, the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi. This short film sets the stage for Everson's upcoming feature, "Rhino" that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood, through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher (Mannix).

A young man walks through the lot of a drive-in theatre on the day of a double feature.

The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white. Condor is the national bird of Chile.

"A 16mm cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Conceived and written by UVA History Professor and author Claudrena Harold and directed by Harold and UVA Professor of Art, filmmaker/artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the film stars Erin Stewart (the bank teller/race driver in Everson's 2006 feature film "Cinnamon") as Vivian Gordon (the director of UVA's Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980). 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." - Trilobite-Arts-DAC, Claudrena Harold, Picture Palace Pictures

Richland Descending is based on a Gerhard Richter painting and the stag films produced in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1960s.

Bird watching

A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi the title refers to the type of rope they use to capture fast calves.

Union illustrates the Virginia Union University football team working together.

Sanfield is a film about airmen training and working at Columbus Air Force Base 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi. Through an observational approach, Kevin J. Everson continues his decade-long exploration of the lives of African-Americans in the fabric of white American society.

Stoplight Liberty focuses on a single intersection in Columbus, Mississippi.

Lost Nothing is the subject Willie James Crittenden waxes poetically about.

What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.

If You Don't Watch the Way You Move features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "choSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, "Shiesty", in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine "Country Blakk" Brown only to be interrupted by a John Cage score.

Historical re-enactments of athletes performing various sports at the University of Virginia are seen as Kent Merritt, one of the first African American scholarship athletes at the university, reflects on his experience.

A partial differential equation is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin.