Zero Genie (2001)
Zero Genie is a film of a performance for zero gravity. Two men, dressed as genies plus carpets, hookah, shawms and stars.
In the belly of a Russian military cargo plane Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer explore myths and archetypes of space, race and flight. Dressed as genies they attempt to smoke a hookah and fly carpets in zero gravity.
Zero Genies (documentation of MIR flight - extract), Jem Finer & Ansuman Biswas, 2001
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The film was edited from footage of the performance shot on an Arts Catalyst parabolic flight at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Start City, Russia, and all the sound track made from the sound captured on film.
Zero Genie was first shown at The Arts Catalyst's Artists & Cosmonauts event at the Sadlers Wells in April 2001 and has subsequently been screened at numberous events, exhibitions and film festivals around the world.
