Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

As part of the Dreamlands film series, Kevin Everson’s film screens in Pain Revisited, a program whose works combine fiction and documentary realism to investigate African and African American experience, asserting resistance to traditional notions of race, gender, labor, and power. Combining hand-drawn imagery, found photographs, footage of slavery, anti-police brutality protests, field recordings of rural West African garment production and an American 1960s Black Panther rally, the filmmakers refuse marginalization, silence and absence, powerfully answering Tony Cokes’ question “how do people make history under conditions pre-established to dissuade them from intervening in it?”

The screening takes place on November 13, 2016. Learn more.