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Taking place in the director’s parents’ hometown in Mississippi, The Island of St. Matthews is a film about the loss of family history, departing from their lack of photographs. A man water skiing, another working at a lock and dam, and a baptism, followed by interviews with locals who recall a pair of devastating floods in the area. Often seen as a poem and a paean to the citizens of the Westport, the film explores tensions between memory, labor and nature.
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Cast:
Raymond Griggs, Rosalie Harris, Charlie Smith -
Original Title:
The Island of St. Matthews -
Country:
United States of America -
Year:
2013 - 70 min Subtitles PT
Director
Kevin Jerome Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson (Mansfield, Ohio, 1965) is a north-American filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. Everson's art practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and filmmaking, including nine feature films - namely Spicebush (2005), The Golden Age of Fish (2008), The Island of St. Matthews (2013), Park Lanes (2015) and Tonsler Park (2017), among others - and over 150 short-films, exhibited internationally at film festivals, cinemas, museums, galleries and public and private art institutions. His films have also been subject of retrospectives at Cinéma du Réel/Centre Pompidou (2019), Harvard Film Archive (2018), Glasgow Short Film Festival (2018), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2017), Viennale (2014), Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland (2012), and Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2009. Everson was awarded the 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video. In his work, he often addresses the working-class culture of black Americans and people of African descent.
