Make America Great Again (and again…and again), a tribute to Octavia E Butler’s post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, The Parable of the Sower (1993), was made in conversation with cinematographer Robert Banks Jr. Understood by the artist as a prophecy of the Trump Era and the existential threats of climate change, wealth inequality and corporate greed, the film pairs sound clips of Butler from interviews and readings with digitally eroded footage of the author speaking. This is intercut with close-ups of hands and feet, a mouth – all wet or slick with oil – abstracted from the human, becoming other, alien. To the whirring sound of a projector, a voice intones: “All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”