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Chevelle KevinJeromeEverson2012 USA|Format:35mm|color|sound|7:30minutes TwoGeneralMotors’automobilesmeetingtheirfateordiscoveringnewforms.FilmedinOntario,Canada. Withasenseofplaceandhistoricalresearch,myfilmscombinescriptedanddocumentaryelementswithrichelementsofformalism.ThesubjectmatteristhegesturesortaskscausedbycertainconditionsinthelivesofworkingclassAfricanAmericansandotherpeopleofAfricandescent.Theconditionsareusuallyphysical,social-economiccircumstancesorweather.Insteadofstandardrealism,Ifavorastrategythatabstractseverydayactionsandstatementsintotheatricalgestures,inwhicharchivalfootageisre-editedorre-staged,realpeopleperformfictionalscenariosbasedontheirownlivesandhistoricalobservationsintermeshwithcontemporarynarratives. ThenewworkstillembracesthesimilarconditionbutIamincreasinglyinterestedininterruptingdocumentarysceneswithabstract,formalscenes,thosesituationswherenecessitycollideswithcoincidence.Thecoincidenceisthescenethatlooksasifitwasculledfromarchivalfootage,anaccidentormistakeintheactualfilmmaterial,whilenecessityistheplotorcharacterthatdrivesthefilm.Iampleasedwhenthesequalitiescollideintermsofform,becauseitplayswiththisambivalentrelationshipbetweenartandnarrative,factandfiction.Eventually,Itrustthatbyworkinginthismanner,yearsfromnow,Iwillseemyworkasachievingpureform. Whatisimportanttonoteinthesubmittedfilmsamplesistheimperativefortheworktoprojectandrevealthematerials,procedureandprocess.Thisapproachcomesformmyundergraduateartinstructionandinfluences.Myprofessors,educatedatIowaUniversityandYaleinthe1970s,taughtfromthisstandpointduringmy80’scollegeyears.Itwasapost-Smithsonapproach.Ibelievethatthisapproachisnotnecessarilyimportanttobenoticeabletotheviewer;itmerelyexplainshowIcontinuetoapproachthecraftofartmaking.Ifirmlybelievethatthematerials(film,video)oftheworkmustbenoticeable.Alightflare,over-exposedfilm,colorflares,distortedsoundsandevenprolongedtapingenhancemynotionofmateriality.ProcedureistheformalqualityIamexploringwiththework.Theprocessistheexecutionoftheformalquality.OnceIhaveagraspofprocedure,theprocessbecomesadiscipline.RecentlyIhavebeenmakingfilmswithsingleeleven-minutetakes,thereal-timeexposureofa400’rollof16mmfilm.Thematerialsarethe16mmfilmandcamera.Theprocedureisthateverythinghastobeframedwithinalimitedtimestructure.Theprocessisfilmingeverythingwiththateleven-minutetimestructureinmind.—K.J.E.