When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)

Forum Expanded 2025

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).

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by Kevin Jerome Everson (Director)
with Derron Everson USA 2025 Without dialogue 36' Colour & Black/White World premiere

With

Derron Everson

Crew

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

Produced by

Picture Palace Pictures

New York, USA

trilobite-arts DAC

Charlottesville, USA

World Sales

Picture Palace Pictures

New York, USA

Photos

Kevin Jerome Everson

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.

Filmography (selection, starting 2015)

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)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025