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Thursday, October 8
GISES (2026) & WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (2025)
Film Screening & Talk with Kevin Jerome Everson
Clara Stanton Jones Friends Auditorium
Detroit Public Library | Main Branch
3–6 pm | free admission

Media City Film Festival (MCFF) and Trinosophes Projects, in cooperation with the Detroit Public Library, present a special in-person event with filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, celebrating a new celestial artwork commissioned by MCFF with support from the Knight Arts Foundation. This screening is curated by Media City Film Festival Artistic Director Oona Mosna.

Globally recognized for his prolific body of work featuring over 300 films, Kevin Jerome Everson has developed a distinctive moving-image practice attentive to labor, gesture, duration, and the textures of everyday life. Gises (2026) is Everson’s newest celestial film, shot from the unique vantage point of metro Detroit, and is the ninth work in his ongoing body of films devoted to celestial phenomena. Created at the Stargate Observatory in southeastern Michigan with generous assistance from the Warren Astronomical Society, this new film extends Everson’s decade-long engagement with all things superlunary: the sun, the moon, eclipses, and other stellar phenomena.

Working with Super 8 and 16mm Bolex cameras fastened to Stargate’s Kalinowski-Khula telescope, Everson observes the heavens through the material and optical possibilities of photochemical film, tracing the sun’s movement through changing registers of light, duration, and perception. The title Gises comes from the Potawatomi language, referring to the sun but also encompassing the moon and seasonal changes tracked through celestial cycles that have guided traditional harvesting and life in this region for millennia.

Also screening as part of this engagement is Everson’s When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025), which takes its title from a Mayan expression for the solar eclipse, and captures 100% totality across three time zones—Mazatlán, Mexico; Carbondale, Illinois; and Cleveland, Ohio—during the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse. This pairing of films extends a conception of the sun and moon not as distant objects of observation but as presences intimately bound to the measurement of time and human ways of understanding the world. Both films are scored by Virginia-based composer David Dominique, recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital State of the Art Prize. The event is followed by a discussion with the artist and visiting film scholar Yasmina Price.


Kevin Jerome Everson’s visit to Detroit is made possible by many funders and partners, including Media City Film Festival, Trinosophes Projects, the Knight Arts Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University, Warren Astronomical Society, Abrams Planetarium, Detroit Public Library, and NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival. Gises (2026) is a production of trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures. All films appear courtesy of the artist, trilobite-arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures. Images © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist, trilobite-arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures.




October 10
Anna Johnson
Jane Marie Rogers
Kristi Ternes
photography installation by Colin Massa
Doors 7: 30 pm | tickets at entry