a sun a stone a vessel is an experimental short film that explores the interplay between body, landscape, and transformation through the lens of the human-sun relationship. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s reflections on vessels as carriers of potential and Octavia Butler’s visions of adaptation and survival, the film examines how bodies, like stones and solar cycles, hold, shape, and are shaped by their environments. The Sun, as both a life-giving and disruptive force, governs biological rhythms and climate cycles while coronal mass ejections (CMEs) threaten global communication and energy systems, destabilizing the structures that connect us. Through a poetic visual language, a sun a stone a vessel reveals the reciprocal relationship between human and earth, where both serve as vessels for one another’s transformations.

The film blends imagery from the Atacama Desert in Chile and the Tabernas and Las Bardenas Desert in Spain, highlighting the shared solar forces and desertification processes that shape these landscapes. While both deserts are defined by extreme solar exposure, a sun a stone a vessel also contrasts the natural desert formations of Atacama with the man-made desertification in Tabernas, underscoring the different ways human influence intersects with natural systems. Through this visual and environmental synthesis, the film invites viewers to reflect on the entanglement of solar rhythms, ecological shifts, and the stories of survival, resilience, and co-creation.