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Clay + Lunar Visions II

Thu 16 Apr, 8:30PM

Clay 
Kevin Jerome Everson | 2026 | USA | 63’ | digital | English spoken
From within the audience, Everson’s camera observes an open meeting of city officials in West Point, Mississippi, in July 2025. Chaired by the city’s mayor, Rodick Bobo, a relative of the filmmaker’s, motions are moved, seconded and voted on. Pay rises for city employees, permits for food trucks, and other matters of municipal governance are discussed in view of the camera’s fixed frame. Against a wider backdrop of decrepit democratic systems in the country, a portrait of an attempt at earnest, accountable politics in the USA emerges.

 

Lunar Visions II 
Lucy Harris | 2025 | UK | 3’ | digital | silent
“During lockdown I started an experiment, filming each full moon for a year. I also tried to ‘understand’ lunar science but whatever books I read I couldn’t seem to hold the facts in my head. Instead, each month I was surprised by the things I observed directly – a fingernail sliver moon, a punch hole in the sky. Because the repetition of that act of filming meant I noticed both consistency and changes – clear nights, cloudy nights, masked moons, moving moons. Filming made me stop and look. A vital reminder: it’s the looking that matters.” (Lucy Harris)

 

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.