Staring at the Sun

October 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT

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Without the sun, life as we know it on Earth could never have developed. With it, we'll all be consumed in another five billion years when it surges outwards into the red giant phase of its life. These opposing forces of the sun, creative and destroying, recur throughout this program experimental sun studies: in U.S. thermonuclear tests in Marshall Islands which harnessed star-like nuclear fusion reactions, in Croatian astronomical animation, in alchemical study of an artist harnessing fire in Appalachian mountains, and in abstract Chilean science fiction. At last, we turn instead to the influence of the moon, in a luminously imagined tale of intersecting lives on the night of an eclipse.

Two Suns (SUPERFLEX | Denmark | 2024 | 15 min)

Salute to the Sun (Darko Masnec | Croatia | 2022 | 9 min)

The Hollow (Jean-Jacques Martinod & Bretta C. Walker | United States | 2022 | 15 min)

estrelladistante (Celeste Rojas Mugica | Chile / Spain | 2023 | 14 min)

Coral (Sonia Oleniak | United States / Poland | 2023 | 18 min)

TRT: 71 min

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Salute to the Sun

Time October 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT
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The Hollow

Time October 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT
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Estrelladistante (Distantstar)

Time October 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT
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Coral

Time October 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT
FILM

Two Suns

Time October 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT
FILM