Kevin Jerome Everson Introduces Erie

"Everson has taken up the mantle of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep: perhaps no two filmmakers have turned as sensitive and human an eye to the lives of working class African-Americans as they have."—Patrick Friel, Cine-File

Erie consists of entrancing single-take, 16mm black-and-white sequences filmed in and around the communities surrounding Lake Erie. Scenes explore African American migration from the South to the North, contemporary conditions, everyday tasks and labors, theater, and famous art objects. Erie has been described as "a revelation…full of images of pure poetry" on Turner Classic Movies' blog and has been seen and honored at film festival awards around the world. (85 mins., video)