Event Details
Thu, November 21, 2024
18:15 – 20:00
VILLA SASSETTI
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
40139 Florence, Italy
A Screening of Acclaimed Filmmaker and Educator Kevin Jerome Everson’s Tonsler Park
Followed by a discussion with
Justin Randolph Thompson, Director of The Recovery Plan
ABOUT THE MOVIE DIRECTOR
Celebrated and prolific filmmaker and educator Kevin Jerome Everson is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Rome Prize Fellowship, a Heinz Award and more having exhibited at illustrious museum such as the Tate Modern in London, MOMA in New York and in film festivals like Sundance, the Venice Biennial of Cinema and Toronto International Film Festival.
This discussion and screening revolves around Everson’s 2017 work Tonsler Park filmed at polling stations in Charlottesville, VA the day that Donald Trump was elected. The film focuses on volunteer workers who administer the voting and is a meditation on voting rights layered with what transpired in the years following in Charlottesville and across the globe.
These events are organized by The Recovery Plan for NYU Florence as a part of an ongoing community partners collaboration.
The next event at NYU Florence for the Recovery Plan will be on December 3, link to the Conversation with Art Historian Rosa Sancarlo.