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A camera is in placed on a gondola on a merry-go-round at a funfair one evening, just in front of the characters, whose strong experience of sensations we come to share, without experiencing them ourselves, as they are typical of funfair attractions. The sensation of vertigo here is akin to drunkenness. In the foreground, the hilarious faces of the young boy and his successive companions cling to the barrier of the gondola, they stand out clearly in the frame, while in the background, the speed distorts objects, breaking perspective. The succession of shots and the rapid editing provoke a stroboscopic effect for the viewer. In the second part of the clip, the perspective is reversed, the characters overflow the frame, the flashes of light and bright colours create abstract images. The director has added lively, almost childlike music that unifies the sequence and accompanies the slice through time, shortening the summer evening trip to a funfair to just a few seconds. Just like the actors, whose joy and pleasure are not acted, but actually experienced, the spectator is embroiled by contagion, in a chaotic and luminous whirlwind, which reaches the child and the adults, brought back to the same place by this experience. At the end of the extract, the trembling camera filming the fireworks evokes the breathing of the person who, having come down from the merry-go-round and returned to the ground, is trying to find their balance, whilst catching their breath.