Invocation of the Memory of Mary Turner, Lynched on May 19, 19182024

A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia in 1918.

Demanding justice after the murder of her husband, she was kidnapped by a Southern mob, hung up in a tree, set on fire, her child cut out, its head stomped upon, and finally shot hundreds of times before being buried on site near the Georgia/Florida border.

Returning to the site on the exactly date and time of Turner’s lynching 105-years earlier–, the film uses static form to experience the passage of time; its shifting of light into shadow upon the landscape and tribute, denote movement as metaphor to invoke the memory of Mary Turner, but also in so that we may examine America's history of racial violence, it's treatment of women, and it continued failure to openly-acknowledge it's past, as well as discuss the continued racial divide that still exists in the schizophrenia of America life today.