Sunstone is a mythical, transcendent journey lasting three minutes, directed by one of the inventors of the language of video. In the silence emerges the beaming face of Sunstone. The round and childlike face of the sun appears on a surface as grey as stone. Opening its eyes and mouth very wide, with the eyes inside the mouth, the image awakens, undertaking various lively metamorphoses, from black and white to colour, shifting matter that brings all of the sun's fires to life.

Sunstone tells a story of the magic of diversity: the three-dimensional image that joins the grainy plane from the pictorial material to the stone sculpture. Ed Emshwiller was one of the first experimental filmmakers to focus on video, then on animated digital graphics, and it is with this anthropomorphic sun that he also harks back to the origins of cinema and its magicians, to the moon voyages of Méliès.

Stéphanie Moisdon
Translated by Anna Knight