Monday, October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Acropolis Cinema presents *When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)* + *Polly Two*: Eclipse Films by Kevin Jerome Everson. In person: Kevin Jerome Everson and David Dominique. ∆ Program: *When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin)* (Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson, 2025, 36 min) The highlight of this year's Berlinale Forum Expanded, Kevin Jerome Everson's new medium-length film 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. Featuring an original score by composer David Dominique; vinyl copies will be available to purchase at the screening. ∆ Preceded by: *Polly Two* (Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson, 2018, 12 min) A study in 99 percent totality filmed during the 2017 eclipse.