Every Sun Is Artificial begins with a two-year obsession: filming sunsets, collecting digital suns and finding the star in images that only resemble it. Personal recordings, found footage and animation form a library of suns through which the video essay traces the star’s transformation into a god, a sovereign and an energy resource.




A synthetic female voice gradually takes over, speaking for SOVRA, a fictional corporate neomonarchy whose ambition is to build an artificial sun. Solar mythology becomes a technological manifesto, then a search for land and infrastructure across Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Borrowing the seductive language of startup pitches and political promises, the work draws the viewer into a vision of energy sovereignty, while leaving its costs, exclusions and claims to power unresolved.