The Centrifuge Brain Project | A Short Film by Till Nowak

The "Centrifuge Brain Project" gives an insight on scientific experiments with amusement park rides.

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CAST & CREW

Producer: Till Nowak
Cast: Leslie Barany
Music: Siriusmo
Year: 2011

[rolanslide]

One of my favorite things about this short is how much is left up to the imagination. They begin to imply something horrifying and then move on without elaborating, it's both effectively unnerving and darkly comedic.

[ElNingyou]

These clips are the most genuinely dreamlike footage I've ever seen. It's like looking at actual dreams, and it's quite unsettling.

[ilikeceral]

Whoever managed to put down these dreamlike rides into a visible format amazes me.

[Shunks]

Can we just applaud how good the sound design is? Those videos of the rides SOUND exactly like they would if you were there

[wombat]

I love how as the video progresses, the scientist being interviewed starts to come across as more and more insane.

[elena..]

These rides are like from a dream, watching this video makes me feel sooo strange, a creepy feeling too. But I can't stop watching it ...

[NoOne-spku]

I remember when I was 9 I was OBSESSED with this video. I made drawings of the rides and thought the place was actually real. I would tell all my family about it and tried to convince them that it existed lol. This video has influenced my art style and so much more. I am so glad I found it again!

[space_cherub]

The High Altitude Conveyance really freaked me out the most. It’s so unsettling to see the Ferris wheel abomination stretch up to what looks like forever. This was so cool to watch and see all these freakishly cool park rides as if they were real.

[djfhhfjdjfb]

I want a movie about this, it’s so uncanny and I’ve never been more terrified

[untapped]

I'm fascinated by the question of *why* these scenes seem to be creepy or unsettling to most people. It must be some kind of strange version of the uncanny valley effect, but it's weird because they're all machines. Maybe it's the rapid and erratic ways they move that adds a level of life to them that we recognize as not natural? Maybe it's from viewing humans in these unnatural states like floating in the air over a giant sphere. It's a mashup of things that could maybe work just at the edge of logic, but yet at the same time we know can't be possible. I can't really place it, but it's so surreal and really genuinely creepy.

[CharlieilrahC]

The CGI is amazing, but incredibly weird, surreal, and creepy at the same time.

[Pinkxpiezhere]

He really did say:"gravity is a mistake."
"Out of reality"
This prove that he knows what he is actually doing something everyone is scared of

[Hammerlord]

The animation has an amazing uncanny smoothness to it, but what blew my mind is how infinitely large the structures appeared. Like others in the comments I swear I've seen gigantic structures like these in my dreams and they both frighten and fascinate me. Also, when I had only seen the sphereotron I hadn't realized this was fiction yet. The acting is wonderfully convincing.

[linkpwns]

they're all so creepy but the catapult absolutely turns my stomach. the way it snakes up so far into the sky is way too organic, it looks like a leviathan monster. it reminds me a lot of what scares people about the deep ocean, living things being so damn big they disappear into the fog

[sonofhal]

Amazing that after five years, clips from this pop up on social media and people believe they're real.

[aliennoodle]

"We fight the forces that hold us down. Our whole life is an effort to escape from reality" that actually goes incredibly hard

[marisp]

"For example, when a mother is walking, the baby would KIND OF move around."

Proceeds to simulate that by creating a nightmare machine

[AlphabetSoup]

This guy is the sweetest mad scientist I have ever seen.

But this fascinates me, just think about how an amusement park might be a laboratory that the subjects willingly walk themselves into. What a cool idea that I hope no one is already using IRL.

[snakeboy]

A lot of people are calling this dreamlike and I totally agree I always see these kinds of gigantic superstructures in my dreams. The ferris wheel in particular. Lots of dreams where I look up at a building of some kind and it just keeps going and going and going....

[ferret]

I find it hard to believe these rides aren't real, there's just something so dreamlike and eerie and yet... nostalgic about them