Photo: Jess Lau
The Star Within Your Sun
2025 Single-channel digital video (colour, sound)
5’25”
As light passes through the aperture blades of a camera lens, the sun often shines like a star when photographed. The quantity and shape of the blades determine the look of these stars, a physical characteristic of the lens. This video is shot using Helios 44, a Soviet-made lens from the 1970s, which shares its name with the ancient Greek god of the sun and has eight aperture blades. Since the human eye cannot look at the sun directly, the lens takes the place of Lau’s eyes in recording the changes of the sun.
你的太陽像顆星
2025 單頻道數碼錄像（彩色、有聲）
5’25”
當相機拍攝太陽時，常會出現星芒效果，這是光線通過鏡頭光圈葉片時產生的光學現象。光圈葉的數量與形狀，決定了這些星芒的樣貌，一種鏡頭的物理特性。本片使用一支70年代蘇聯製的老鏡頭，名為 Helios 44，與古希臘神話中的太陽神同名，擁有八片光圈葉。因為人眼無法直視太陽，劉氏以相機代替眼睛記錄太陽的變化。
