Julie Gautier's underwater dance AMA filmed in world's deepest thermal pool

Julie Gautier, a filmmaker and expert diver, performs a poetic underwater choreography in the world's deepest thermal pool at Montegrotto Terme, Padua. The short film, titled AMA—a Japanese word meaning 'woman of the sea'—shows Gautier holding her breath for the entire dance before releasing a giant cloud of bubbles at the surface. The emotional soundtrack is by Italian pianist Ezio Bosso. Gautier describes the video as an ode to openness: 'For me the video is a way of saying: we are not alone. Let us open ourselves to others, talk with them about our suffering and our joys.' She has long collaborated with her partner, world free-diving champion Guillaume Néry, on artistic underwater videos using free-diving techniques. Together they have created shorts such as Océan Gravity, Free Fall, the music video Runnin' by Beyoncé, and Y40 Jump, which features Néry's vertiginous free fall in the same Guinness-record pool at Montegrotto.