Jack Goldstein (1945–2003)

“The Jump, 1978, is a silent twenty-six-second loop projected on a fuchsia-colored wall illuminated by black lights. Using editing effects, Goldstein transformed a high diver, jumping into an amorphous deep purple space, into an incorporeal constellation of Technicolor stars. The strenuously exerted body of Goldstein’s early performative films has been completely recast by technology as an image: a burst of graceful, highly regulated, firework like light. The Jump was the last of Goldstein’s early films, and it is a fitting swan song to an era when the body was still considered a viable site of resistance.”

Thanks Kathy

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