Make a Little Sun (2024) reimagines Little Sun (1963), the first and only science-fiction film made in China before the country’s economic reforms. Originally an educational film for children, Little Sun tells the utopian story of young researchers creating an artificial sun to boost food production. Banned during the Cultural Revolution, the film is now seen as an informal response to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961).

This re-edited version fragments the original footage across a three-channel installation, combining it with new texts to reflect on global political crises since World War II. The sun becomes a metaphor for power, used to critique nuclear militarization, the colonial legacy of space exploration, and the failures of technological progress. Through disrupted narratives and visual manipulation, the work challenges modernization’s destructive trajectory and calls for collective alternatives to capitalist development.