"Don't Let Go"
Roman Signer
Swiss, born 1938
1983
A two-minute color Super 8 film (transferred to video) showing a man on a country road holding a small rocket or smoke device—an intentionally simple, staged experiment that exposes how physical forces and chance interrupt human control.
What hits you first is the sudden blue-white plume slicing across the sunlit frame and the lone figure centered against dense green foliage, turning a banal roadside into a tense, theatrical instant.
Typical of Roman Signer’s ‘action sculptures,’ the work treats force, trajectory, and accident as sculptural materials and connects performance, time-based media, and object-making in late 20th-century art.
Medium
Super 8mm film transferred to video (color, silent)
Dimensions
2 min.
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Department
Credit
Committee on Media Funds
Accession
1274.2007
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