Hold On, 2010
Single channel video, color, sound, loop
3 minutes 11 seconds
Attribution:
Marek Ranis in collaboration with Jonathan Case
Hold On shows footage from polar landscape and NASCAR car racing, the most popular motor sport in the USA. The sound is an audio scan of radio exchange between a driver and his crew. The extreme sport entertainment is combined with images of the sublime polar landscape of the ice fiord in Northern Greenland. This short movie was built on surreal juxtaposition of subjects and images connected by the notion of time, movement and ecology. The scale and sublime character of events witnessed in Greenland; beautiful, incomprehensible and terrifying, serve as a powerful metaphor for changes in our environment.
This video was produced in collaboration with Jonathan Case.