Ocean Gravity is a short film of 3 minutes 38 seconds directed by Julie Gautier and Guillaume Néry, French freediving champion. We see the latter, the inert body,"in weightlessness" in the seabed. Like space, there are no more tops and bottoms or places and backs.
The actor defies the laws of gravity and lets himself be absorbed and carried by the marine currents, even pretending to walk in the water. The film is made in apnea and without special effects. It's a beauty.
Guillaume explains My dives have always propelled my imagination into the fantasy of space conquest. Touching the bottom of the sea or setting foot on an unexplored planet, these are 2 exciting adventures that feed my thirst for the unknown. The discovery of this unique place in the world, the pass of Tiputa allowed us to put in image the visual proximity of the 2 universes water and air, ocean and space."
Guillaume Néry is French freediving champion and depth specialist. In 2002, he became the youngest record holder in the world to dive freediving to a depth of 87 metres, with the simple force of his fins. Then, he beat the world record 3 times, became team world champion in 2008 and individual champion in Greece in 2011 with a dive to a depth of 117 meters. Today, it dives to a depth of 125 metres, a new French record.
