‘Endless gravity’: Out-of-this-world VIDEO shows jellyfish fairy dance
If you wanted proof you don’t have to go to space to find other beautiful worlds, then Alex Soloviev has captured a magnificent slow-motion video of jellyfish that is gorgeous and hypnotizing.
“You can watch these ocean creatures endlessly. It's like a live cosmos, unbelievable smooth moves, eternity and meditation,” Alex Soloviev says in the description to his 5-minute clip ‘Endless Gravity’, posted on Vimeo.
The film features mostly slow-motion shots of bio-luminescent
jellyfish gliding through the sea’s dark waters.
“When I saw them for the first time, I instantly got an idea
for the film. These creatures really look and move like something
not of our world,” Soloviev told RT.
Amazingly enough, the clip was taken in a European aquarium, not
on the sea floor.
“I had to find angles and lighting to dismiss the aquarium
look, which was the hardest part. It took a lot of work and time
to make it look like it was shot in a real ocean rather than in
an aquarium,” he said.
All the artist needed to shoot this extraordinary footage was his
camera. Soloviev says no image-altering VFX was used for the
final cut.
“Of course I made hard color grade to push the colors, blacks
and slowed in post some of the shots to make it look more like a
space motion,” Soloviev said.
Soloviev currently lives in Moscow and filmmaking is his hobby.
Jellyfish are found in every ocean from the surface to the deep
waters and they sometimes live in freshwater. The creatures have
been on this planet at least 500 million years and are among the
oldest multi-organ animals.
