Film info: Quality Control
entradasFilm Information
| Original Title | Quality Control |
|---|---|
| English Title | Quality Control |
| Director | Kevin Jerome Everson |
| Country |  |
| Year | 2011 |
| Format | DV Cam |
| Colour | B&W |
| Duration | 71 min |
Cast:
- Annette Speight, Shay Wright.
Production:
- Guión: Kevin Jerome Everson
- Fotografía: Kevin Jerome Everson
- Montaje: Kevin Jerome Everson
- Producción: Kevin Jerome Everson, Madeleine Molyneaux
Synopsis
Kevin Jerome Everson’s huge body of work recurrently addresses the work environment of African Americans, both the historical (many of his short films make an intensive use of found footage) and the contemporary one. Quality Control features a new immersion into that universe through the obsessive recording of everyday routine in a drycleaner’s store in Alabama. They fold, iron, and hang over and over again. Men and women’s mechanical movements form a choreography of capitalist alienation that takes concrete working conditions –heat, noisy machines, scarce breaks, barely audible conversations– ad turns them into something tangible –and yet they also make them abstract, as if they belonged to a different time and world. Shooting in 16mm black and white featuring long fixed shots and showing the film’s own shooting process (the imperfection in the celluloid and the trembling of the camera are there on plain sight), Everson ratifies his unique eye, which is extraordinarily aware of revelatory details, as well as capable of finding a strange plastic beauty in the most unexpected places.
Date and Times
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