Synopsis
In the 1970s, New York scientists studied the effects of carousels on the learning curve of four-yearolds.The results were so surprising that the Institute of Centrifugal Research in Florida started to construct a series of devices, each bigger and stronger than the other, to test the effects on adults. Even today research fever will lead to the most fanciful experiments. This short film allegedly appropriates the aesthetics of a television documentary to take a tongue-in-cheek look at the more bizarre excesses of US science. Hamburg-based filmmaker Till Nowak uses archive material about old carousel experiments
and digital animation. In addition, he managed to get an interview with chief engineer Dr. Nick Laslowicz, probably one of the most original thinkers of the Centrifuge Brain Project.
