When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)
Director
Kevin Jerome Everson
USA / 2025
36 min.
/ Without dialogue
When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) is about one-hundred-percent totality in three time zones – Mazatlán, Mexico; Carbondale, Illinois; and Cleveland, Ohio – on the occasion of the solar eclipse across parts of North America, April 8, 2024. The title is the Mayan translation of the phenomenon of the solar eclipse. Shot with multiple cameras in Super 8 and 16mm, in black and white and color, the film is the latest in a series of works featuring solar and lunar eclipses including Polly One (2018), Polly Two (2018), Condor (2019), and Black Vulture (2021).
Kevin Jerome Everson has an MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron and is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His work encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and film – including eleven features and over 200 short form works. Recent retrospectives and solo exhibitions include the Halle für Kunst, Graz; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. Everson is the recipient of several awards, grants, and numerous fellowships. This is his sixth participation with Forum Expanded.
Director Kevin Jerome Everson. Cinematography Kevin Jerome Everson, Jack Doerner, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Kera MacKenzie, Matilda Washington, Alyce Yang, Anthony Restivo. Editing Kevin Jerome Everson. Music David Dominique. Sound Design David Dominique. Producer Madeleine Molyneaux. Production companies Picture Palace Pictures (New York, USA), trilobite-arts DAC (Charlottesville, USA). With Derron Everson.
World sales Picture Palace Pictures
Films: 2015: Production Material Handler, A Saturday Night in Mansfield Ohio 2 (2 min.), Grand Finale (5 min.), Three Quarters (5 min., Forum Expanded 2015), Regal Unlimited (3 min.), Smooth Surface (3 min.), Three Items a Shelf (4 min.), Park Lanes (480 min.), It Seems to Hang On (20 min.). 2016: Oscar at 8903 Empire (2 min.), 8903 Empire (480 min.), Auditioning for Nathaniel (14 min.), Lost Nothing (4 min.), Threshold Spondee/Discrimination N66#1 (5 min.), Shadeena (5 min.), Ears, Nose and Throat (11 min.), We Demand (4 min., Forum Expanded 2016). 2017: Tonsler Park (82 min.), Brown and Clear (8 min.), Carrs Down South (3 min.), R-15 (5 min.), Rams 23 Blue Bears 21 (8 min.). 2018: Round Seven (19 min.), Rhino (23 min.), Polly One (6 min.), Polly Two (12 min.). 2019: Traveling Shoes (7 min., Forum Expanded 2019), Music from the Edge of Allegheny Plateau (7 min.), Condor (8 min.). 2020: Recovery (10 min., Forum Expanded 2020). 2021: Lago Gatún (60 min.), East Technical High School (Rekord) (3 min.), The I and S of Lives (6 min.), May June July (8 min., Forum Expanded 2021). 2022: Weidle’s (3 min.), Chelsea 5124 (3 min.), Fire Emergencies (3 min., Forum Expanded 2022), Patent 1,571,148 (5 min.), Hazel (24 min.). 2023: West Lounge (5 min.), Hough 66 (7 min.), If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (12 min., Forum Expanded 2023). 2024: Practice, Practice, Practice (10 min.). 2025: When the Sun is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin).
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