Backyard Winter

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.

Backyard Winter


Video:

Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
Color
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 3m 12s
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.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
,
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8098
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive