Backyard Winter
Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0219
Run Time
0h 3m 12s
0h 3m 12s
Format
8mm
8mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Silent
Abstract
Similar to Elam’s “Winter Garden,” “Backyard Winter” surveys fresh snowfall upon what appears to be her Logan Square home, a salient locale in Elam’s work. However, unlike its counterpart, “Backyard Winter” captures its representations at a higher vantage and consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across the lawn. Elam slows “Backyard Winter” near its final minute to take exception to a yellow utility vehicle hard at work; though the branches, she stalks its mechanical motions.
Similar to Elam’s “Winter Garden,” “Backyard Winter” surveys fresh snowfall upon what appears to be her Logan Square home, a salient locale in Elam’s work. However, unlike its counterpart, “Backyard Winter” captures its representations at a higher vantage and consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across the lawn. Elam slows “Backyard Winter” near its final minute to take exception to a yellow utility vehicle hard at work; though the branches, she stalks its mechanical motions.
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Genre
Form