As its title indicates, JoAnn Elam’s Sprockets shows the sprocket holes of a film strip moving vertically and then horizontally across the screen. In light of Elam’s experimental work and especially in our digital age, this footage reads as a reflection on the physicality of the filmic medium, whose visual, hypnotic power here comes from the film object itself.
Sprockets
Sprockets
Video:
Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
Color
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 5m 14s
Abstract:
As its title indicates, JoAnn Elam's Sprockets shows the sprocket holes of a film strip moving vertically and then horizontally across the screen. In light of Elam's experimental work and especially in our digital age, this footage reads as a reflection on the physicality of the filmic medium, whose visual, hypnotic power here comes from the film object itself.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8037
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive