The Sun, The Stars

Of course, the Sun is also a star. Here we present three films in which the Sun and the stars are the main players, films full of light, movement, and wonder….

Sun Tunnels

1978
Regi: Nancy Holt
16mm, 26min

A personal record of the making the filmmaker’s art-work, «Sun Tunnels,» in the remote northwest Utah desert. Being aligned with the sunsets and sunrises during the summer and winter solstices, it indicates the daily and yearly cycle of the sun.

Observando Del Cielo

2007
Regi: Jeanne Liotta
16mm, 19min

Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere allow the universe to speak for itself.

Star Garden 

1985
Regi: Stan Brakhage
16mm, 20min

«The STAR is the sun. The imaginary sun begins its course throughout whatever darkened room this film is seen within. It can be seen to shift its thought-light gradually back through aftertones and imaginings of the stars of the film, till it achieves a one-to-one relationship with moon again». – Stan Brakhage