Hazel (dual) + Gwetto

With directors Kevin Jerome Everson and Michaël Andrianaly in person 

Hazel (dual) 

Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson. U.S. 2023, 12 mins. DCP. In Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych (hence “dual”), actor-musician Ricky Goldman (seen in Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s Gospel Hill, First Look 2023) incarnates Eddie Hazel, the virtuoso lead guitarist of George Clinton’s Funkadelic. As he performs both the rhythm and lead parts of the soloist’s legendary “Maggot Brain,” Goldman and Everson seek out the generative spark, perhaps a legendary manipulation by Clinton, that led Hazel to play with such passion. North American premiere 

Gwetto 

Dir. Michaël Andrianaly. Madagascar. 2023, 52 mins. DCP. In Malagasy with English subtitles. Acclaimed documentarian Andrianaly (Nofinofy, First Look 20/21) returns with another beautifully crafted piece of vérité filmmaking. In Tamatave, the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country—Jelco, Justin, Rabetsy, and Mamy—work a neighborhood car wash. Exploited by their unseen but all-seeing boss, stigmatized by locals, and hounded by the police, the men endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. With his peerless sense of visual economy and observational empathy, Andrianaly depicts the long, hot days and sleepless nights of their shared existence, gradually building to a final note of rebellious optimism. 2024 True Vision Award, True/False Film Festival. New York premiere 

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. 

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Kevin Jerome Everson (b. Mansfield, Ohio. Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) is the Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Heinz Award, Berlin Prize, Alpert Award, Rome Prize, and Creative Capital, Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, 12 award-winning features and over 200 solo and collaborative short form works that screen regularly at international film festivals, cinemas, galleries, museums and art biennials.

 

 

 

 

Michaël Andrianaly was born in July 1978. He is a director, chief-operator and photographer. He lives in Tamatave. After a first short documentary film made during a workshop in 2013, Todisoa et les pierres noires, he directed two films selected in many international festivals: Njaka Kely (2015) and Nofinofy (2019) (double award at Cinéma du Réel and Étoile de la Scam). Gwetto, his fourth documentary film, will be broadcast on the Tënk platform and TV5Monde in 2023.