Triple Bill: This Aggregate of Images that is the Universe (STARS) (2025) | Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre (2024) | When the Sun is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025)

This Aggregate of Images that is the Universe (STARS) (2025) Olena Newkryta | The Netherlands, Austria | 2025 | 26 min | PG Drawing on archival photographic plates from Harvard’s Institute of Astronomy, this film traces early attempts at systematically classifying the observable universe. It explores what this colonial endeavour rendered invisible – including the often feminine labour behind manually mapping the stars – in their privileging of what is visible. Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre (2024) Natasha Tontey | Indonesia, Switzerland | 2024 | 32 min | PG Drawing on Minahasan mythology and the mawolay ritual, in which villagers don monkey costumes to “become macaque,” the characters in this work of speculative fiction play out dynamics between primatology and evolutionary science, exposing the carnivalesque nature of human/non-human relations. When the Sun is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025) Kevin Jerome Everson | US | 2025 | 36 min | Exemptible On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse was captured simultaneously on grainy film stock by Everson in collaboration with cinematographers in three cities – one in Mexico, another in Illinois and the last in Ohio. By centring our gaze on the absent sun, the film foregrounds our desire for meaning in the absence of enlightenment. This Aggregate of Images that is the Universe (STARS) (2025) Olena Newkryta | The Netherlands, Austria | 2025 | 26 min | PG Drawing on archival photographic plates from Harvard’s Institute of Astronomy, this film traces early attempts at systematically classifying the observable universe. It explores what this colonial endeavour rendered invisible – including the often feminine labour behind manually mapping the stars – in their privileging of what is visible. Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre (2024) Natasha Tontey | Indonesia, Switzerland | 2024 | 32 min | PG Drawing on Minahasan mythology and the mawolay ritual, in which villagers don monkey costumes to “become macaque,” the characters in this work of speculative fiction play out dynamics between primatology and evolutionary science, exposing the carnivalesque nature of human/non-human relations. When the Sun is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin) (2025) Kevin Jerome Everson | US | 2025 | 36 min | Exemptible On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse was captured simultaneously on grainy film stock by Everson in collaboration with cinematographers in three cities – one in Mexico, another in Illinois and the last in Ohio. By centring our gaze on the absent sun, the film foregrounds our desire for meaning in the absence of enlightenment. Show more