FMS Faculty Film Screening + Q&A With Khary Jones and Kyle Petty
- Oct 18, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 20
October 16, 2025 • Barnum LL08
The FMS community gathered on Thursday evening, October 16, for a special 10-Year Anniversary screening featuring two remarkable faculty films: Night Fight by Khary Jones and monolithic tenderness by Kyle Petty. Barnum LL08 was filled with students, faculty, alumni, and guests eager to experience these deeply personal works and to hear directly from the filmmakers during an extended post-screening conversation. This event exemplified what the FMS anniversary year aims to highlight: a community based on storytelling, inquiry, and shared creative practice.
About the event
FMS Faculty Film Screening and Q+A: Khary Jones and Kyle Petty
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6:30 – 8pm, Barnum LL08
Kicking off the FMS 10 Year anniversary celebration, FMS is proud to screen Night Fight by Khary Jones and monolithic tenderness by Kyle Petty. The films will be followed by apost-screening Q+A with Khary Jones and Kyle Petty about the filmmaking process and their film festival experiences.
Night Fight
a feature-length documentary
Directed by Khary Saeed Jones
It's been seven years since I was followed by a racist vigilante down back roads in rural Canada.
During that time, I have sought to document — at first, unwittingly — the emergence of the versions of myself that were born on that day and in the weeks, months, and years afterward. As I return to Canada to find answers, I begin to question whether it is only me who has returned, and if "we" only want answers or something else?
NIGHT FIGHT is a hybrid documentary—nonfiction wrapped in fiction—which charts my attempt to find answers to those questions and, ultimately, how to communicate these experiences and their meaning to my children.
monolithic tenderness
HD Video, 16mm to digital, ultrasound photographs - 07:18 - 4:3 - Stereo - United States - 2024
Directed by Kyle Petty
A tessellating flicker film that seeks to undo the cold, impersonal architecture of the city by dousing it in organic and domestic forms. Featuring a collaged soundtrack of spam phone calls, pulsing synth chords, bagpipe drones, and a lullaby sung to my daughter while in-utero.
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