Caleb Kaufman

A couple is late for a funeral which sparks an argument. What ensues is a discussion of the morality of death and how we deal with loss.

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.

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.

A couple is late for a funeral which sparks an argument. What ensues is a discussion of the morality of death and how we deal with loss.

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.

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.