October 10
Anna Johnson
Jane Marie Rogers
Kristi Ternes
photography installation by Colin Massa
Doors 7: 30 pm | tickets at entry
Anna Johnson
Jane Marie Rogers
Kristi Ternes
photography installation by Colin Massa
Doors 7: 30 pm | tickets at entry
GISES A New Celestial Film by Kevin Jerome Everson
On view 11 am–5 pm
Thu. Oct. 15 • Thu. Oct. 22 • Sat. Oct. 24
Thu. Nov. 5 • Sat. Nov. 7 • Thu. Nov. 12 • Sat. Nov. 14
Clara Stanton Jones Friends Auditorium, Detroit Public Library | Main Branch
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.
This project is made possible by many funders and partners, including the Knight Arts Foundation, Detroit Public Library, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. 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.
Special thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, Picture Palace Pictures, Cully Sommers, Detroit Public Library, and Warren Astronomical Society / Stargate Observatory members Jonathan Kade, Riyad Matti, Adrian Bradley, Mark Kedzior, and Jeff MacLeod.
Portrait © Oona Mosna courtesy Media City Film Festival.