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Rodney Evans

Rodney Evans

Directing

Known For

Gummo
6.6

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Gummo

1997
Brother to Brother
5.1

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Brother to Brother

2004
The Happy Sad
5.2

Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.

The Happy Sad

2013
The Mountain King
5.0

A reserved young man meets an impulsive stranger on a secluded beach. Their brief friendship leaves each subtly changed.

The Mountain King

2000
Vision Portraits
7.0

Filmmaker Rodney Evans embarks on a scientific and artistic journey, questioning how his loss of vision might impact his creative future. Through illuminating portraits of three artists: a photographer (John Dugdale), a dancer (Kayla Hamilton), and a writer (Ryan Knighton), the film looks at the ways each artist was affected by the loss of their vision and the ways in which their creative process has changed or adapted.

Vision Portraits

2019
Two Encounters
8.0

Armed with hidden buttonhole cameras two gay men, one black and one white, go to two gay bars in New York, one predominantly black and one predominantly white, to uncover the “racialized geographies of New York’s gay bar scene.”

Two Encounters

2000
May
N/A

A weary white French professor and a young black drug dealer share an impalpable connection on a single night in Philadelphia.

May

2019
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9.0

A film which explores how the past influences the present, and what it means to grow up black and gay within a homophobic Jamaican culture.

Close to Home

1997
Portal
N/A

Reflections on connection during the pandemic, and finding joy in small and unsuspecting ways.

Portal

2022
Persistence of Vision
1.0

This poignant documentary portrait by writer, director, and producer Rodney Evans chronicles the experiences and creative process of photographer John Dugdale as he adapts to his loss of vision due to an HIV-related illness.

Persistence of Vision

2016
Billy & Aaron
1.0

A short narrative drama that explores the personal and professional dilemmas faced by the openly gay jazz composer, Billy Strayhorn, in the early 1940's.

Billy & Aaron

2010