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 of 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.
