Highway

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.