Escape Vehicle No. 6 (Simon Faithfull, 2004)

[cahiers_du_2006]

Incredible. You can watch this on the internet. It's amazing. It's a chair and a camera tied to a weather balloon set to ascend into the heavens. The only soundtrack is the noise of the camera's transmission to the ground below. There is editing in the form of dissolves but otherwise it's a fairly untouched and totally sublime. This thing goes into the atmosphere. You see the limits of the world captured by a camera before the camera is burnt up the the atmosphere.

This to me is way more earth shattering than a royal wedding or OJ Simpson being chased by police on tv.