Caleb Kaufman

Three figures of the past, present and statue find what legacy means to them within the art world.

Everyone wants to leave something behind. For sculptor Cornelius Pepsi Lyon, this is the driving force behind his creativity. Over the past four decades, he built the largest sculpture garden in America made by an individual artist, with over 800 pieces of his work scattered around his 40 acre property. Everlasting is an examination of Cornelius’ life’s work and the very nature of what inspires us to create.

A middle-aged woman (Robin), after the presumed death of her father, faces multiple versions of herself as memories of an unknown childhood reveal themselves. Trapped in her father’s house, a slow uncovering of events lost in her mind begin to spill out as we, the audience, lose track of what's real and what is not.

The film follows the relationship between a theater employee, a projectionist and a Theater Owner as film projection is replaced by digital projection. It explores how film brings people together and projection of film as a lost art form.