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COUNTERWEIGHT - Chris Burden's The Flying Steamroller
(view from screening at South London Gallery, November 2007)
 To watch clips of COUNTERWEIGHT please click here (10 MB)


COUNTERWEIGHT 
"A fascinating document on the building of last year's amazing gallery project, 'The Flying Steamroller'. Utilising a simple but accurate counterweight system, American performance artist Chris Burden's bright yellow steamroller really did fly. Seen in the flesh it must have been a truly mesmerising experience.
Knaub's wordless documentary does the outside installation great justice by filming the building process close up – bolts being tightened, panning shots of various metals, etc – before finally pulling back to let us see the final result. The great 48-ton beast rises almost magically into the air and all you hear is the sound of silence. Fabulous."

Derek Adams,
Time Out Magazine,
No. 1941


DVD Edition: The screening coincided with the publication of a limited edition (250) DVD package of the film. The inlay includes a
transcript of an interview with Chris Burden conducted by
Thorsten Knaub at the time of making the film.
  For info on how to purchase the DVD please click here
For press release please click here