Bending spacetime in the basement is a short film of Grace Weir and astrophysicist Ian Elliott setting up an experiment to attempt to successfully 'bend spacetime'.  Using everyday ordinary materials, tin cans, lead, wood, string and setting up in a basement they attempt to alter the forces or attractions between objects and demonstrate the universality of gravitation; that there is nothing special about the Earth that makes objects fall toward it. Everything attracts everything else. This is shot as live action as the experiment unfolds and was not scripted, the conversation taking place between Ian and Grace serving to explain the action taken. As they conduct their experiments and demonstrations they present a critique of the experimental process itself, an inexact activity that combines science rigorously with a host of other social and artistic acts.

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