48th international film festival rotterdam · 2018. 12. 5. · 48th international film festival...
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Still from 8902 Empire
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 January - 3 February 2019
Rotterdam, 5 December 2018
From 5 December onwards, streaming platform IFFR Unleashed of International
Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will show the world premiere of 8903 Empire by
Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil I. Pedizisai. This eight-hour film is available to
worldwide audiences for one month only.
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8903 Empire runs for 480 minutes and is loosely inspired by the 1964 black-and-white Andy
Warhol film Empire, which also runs for eight hours. Warhol’s Empire consists of a single
unchanging shot of the Empire State Building in New York City. Kevin Jerome Everson and his
collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai (who serves as assistant director on many of Everson’s films)
filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland, Ohio.
IFFR Unleashed recently presented a Filmmaker in Focus programme around the work of
Kevin Jerome Everson. Nine of his films are available online.
Left: Portrait Kevin Jerome Everson
Right: Portrait Kahlil. I. Pedizisai
For a viewing link of Empire 8903, please contact us via [email protected].