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Home>Affinities, or The Weight of Cinema>List of Films

# Series Filmography

Introduction

An Affinity for Labor

An Affinity for Color

An Affinity for Witnessing

List of Films Shown in the Series

**An Affinity for Witnessing**(Originally screened January 6, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.)Total running time 55 minutes

*Ears, Nose & Throat*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016, United States, digital, 10 minutes

*Perfect Film*Ken Jacobs, 1986, United States, 16mm, 22 minutes

*Shoot Don’t Shoot*William E. Jones, 2012, United States, 16mm, 5 minutes

*From Ally to Accomplice*Kelly Gallagher, 2015, United States, digital, 18 minutes

**An Affinity for the Interval **(Originally screened January 6, 2018, at 4:00 p.m.)Total running time 85 minutes

*Oscar at 8903 Empire*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016, United States, digital, 2 minutes

*Considerations*Arthur Jafa, 1982, United States, digital, 16 minutes

*Bird’s Milk*Dineo Seshee Bopape, 2009, South Africa, digital, 6 minutes

*Hour Glass*Haile Gerima, 1971, United States/Ethiopia, digibeta, 14 minutes

*Kuhani*Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, 2013, United States/Uganda, digital, 7 minutes

*Reassemblage*Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982, United States/Vietnam, 16mm, 40 minutes

**An Affinity for Labor **(Originally screened January 7, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.)Total running time 40 minutes

*Smooth Surface*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2015, United States, digital, 3 minutes

*King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko)*Karimah Ashadu, 2015, United Kingdom/Nigeria, digital, 5 minutes

*Intermittent Delight*Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2007, United States, digital, 5 minutes

*Marseille Après la Guerre*Billy Woodberry, 2016, United States, digital, 10 minutes

*Lead*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2009, United States, digital, 3 minutes

*Iseeyou*Simon Gush, 2013, South Africa, digital, 14 minutes

**An Affinity for Constructivism**(Originally screened January 7, 2018, at 5:30 p.m.)Total running time 53 minutes

*Kino-nedelja No. 33*Dziga Vertov, 1919, Russia, 35mm, 8 minutes

*Lipanjska gibanja*Zelmir Zilnik, 1969, Serbia, 35mm, 10 minutes

*Blokada*Leszek Boguszewski, 1981, Poland, 11 minutes

*Genet parle de Angela Davis*Carole Roussopolous, 1970, France, 7 minutes

*One Document for Hope*Meg Rorison, 2016, United States, 16mm, 7 minutes

*We Demand*Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena Harold, 2016, United States, digital, 10 minutes

**An Affinity for Color**(Originally screened January 13, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.)Total running time 58 minutes

*Ujamii Uhuru Schule Community Freedom School*Don Amis, 1974, United States, digibeta, 9 minutes

*Explosion Ma Baby*Pauline Curnier Jardin, 2016, France, digital, 8 minutes

*Rainbow’s Gravity*Mareike Bernien and Kerstin Schroedinger, 2014, Germany, digital, 32 minutes

*Grand Finale*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2015, United States, digital, 5 minutes

*Feeling Seven*Tomislav Gotovac, 2000, Croatia, digital, 4 minutes

**An Affinity for Minimalism **(Originally screened January 13, 2018, at 4:00 p.m.)Total running time 42 minutes

*27.12.2013 St. Louis Senegal*Friedl vom Gröller, 2014, Austria, 16mm, 3 minutes

*Several Friends*Charles Burnett, 1969, United States, 35mm, 22 minutes

*Movies of Local People (Chapel Hill)*H. Lee Waters, 1939–1941, United States, digital, 9 minutes

*Rams 23 Blue Bears 21*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017, United States, digital, 8 minutes

**An Affinity for the Readymade **(Originally screened January 14, 2018, at 4:00 p.m.)Total running time 42 minutes

*The Citizens*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2009, United States, digital, 6 minutes

*Nice Biscuits #2*Luther Price, 2005, United States, 16mm, 9 minutes

*My Only Idol Is Reality*Martine Syms, 2007, United States, digital, 7 minutes

*Unsere Afrikareise*Peter Kubelka, 1966, Austria, 16mm, 13 minutes

*Sugarcoated Arsenic*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2013, United States, digital, 20 minutes

**An Affinity for Collage **(Originally screened January 14, 2018, at 5:30 p.m.)Total running time 69 minutes

*A Saturday Night in Mansfield Ohio*Kevin Jerome Everson, 2015, United States, digital, 2 minutes

*Reckless Eyeballing*Christopher Harris, 2004, United States, 16mm, 15 minutes

*Nor Was This By Any Means*Anthony Ramos, 1978, United States, digital, 24 minutes

*WAP*Dirk de Bruyn, 2012, Australia, digital, 10 minutes

*Medea*Ben Caldwell, 1973, United States, digibeta, 7 minutes

*Songs for Earth and Folk*Cauleen Smith, 2013, United States, digital, 11 minutes

still from *Sugarcoated Arsenic*Claudrena Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, 2013, 16mm to digital, 20 minutesCourtesy the artists, Trilobite-Arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures

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