Highway
Identifier
F.2011-01-0078
Abstract
This footage by JoAnn Elam was taken from a moving car on the highway near Chicago, where Elam lived for most of her life. Cars, lampposts, buildings, and the Chicago skyline in the distance come in and out of the frame, without the camera being able to control what it is filming. As in another element from this collection titled Elma + Deans, where Elam also films the moving landscape during a car ride, she might have been interested in how certain kinds of motion (of the camera, of the car, of the surrounding reality) changes the filmic image.
Run Time
4 min 42 sec
Format
8mm
Extent
50 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Genre
Form
Subject
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Related Places
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
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