Radiating the radical simplicity of a Lumière actuality, THE MAYBERRY PRACTICE CALF shows an African-American cowboy roping a hunk of tire again and again. "Calf roping is a discipline," Kevin Jerome Everson told an interviewer. "People practice it, they know the language of it and they know how to do it." Everson's camera evinces a comparable degree of discipline, with a single long take functioning as a montage through the serial repetition of the cowboy's action. We may wonder if we're watching a loop but gradually our eyes are drawn to small variations. Practice makes perfect. - Max Goldberg
Release Date: February 05, 2012
July 17, 2017
November 09, 2018
April 16, 2018
May 09, 2022
March 22, 1895
April 27, 2016
April 27, 2014
September 01, 2015
April 29, 1956
January 01, 2005
January 01, 1983
January 01, 1991
January 01, 1988
January 01, 1961
September 06, 1896
October 28, 1897
September 02, 1898
September 05, 1896
October 28, 1897
June 18, 1896