Description

Night Fight is a hybrid documentary, nonfiction framed with creative, cinematic storytelling directed and edited by Khary Saeed Jones. The film emerges from a harrowing incident in 2017 when Jones was followed by a racist vigilante along back roads in rural Canada. Over time, that encounter cast a long shadow over his life, prompting a deep, introspective journey to understand not just what happened, but how it shaped him.

Rather than a conventional documentary, Night Fight weaves together Jones’s personal reflections, self-portrait video fragments, and interviews with academics, artists, and writers about racial violence, memory, and psychological impact. The narrative oscillates between the literal journey back to the site of the incident and an emotional, internal journey toward meaning and healing.

Described as a candid, nuanced, and deeply personal film, Night Fight confronts systemic and interpersonal racial violence and discrimination. It engages with the challenge of sharing an internal reality that is both singular and emblematic of broader collective experiences.

Join us for a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Khary Jones.

Khary Saeed Jones is an award-winning filmmaker, editor, and Professor of the Practice in Drama, Film, and Performance Studies at Tufts University, where he teaches screen storytelling and mentors students in both documentary and scripted projects. Jones holds an MFA in Film Directing and an MA in English from Columbia University, as well as a BA in English from Morehouse College.

His work as a writer-director explores the tensions between fiction, memory, and lived experience, and has screened at major festivals and cultural venues including Sundance, SXSW, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and ICA Boston.