Micro-gravity Oddity
by Ariane Maugery
2005, 5.15 minutes

Micro-gravity oddity is a video-arabesque created from films and a large number of photographs taken on board the shuttle "Discovery" in January 1992 and out of the shuttle by the crew during the first International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1). Sitting on his cloudy chair, a hallucinated personage shifts from a situation of gravity to a floating state in weightlessness conditions which reveals his entrance into a state of dance. The entanglement of the actual impressions of a floating imbalance and of a specific state of concentration constitutes an intensive, rhythmic experience.