Back Porch

“Back Porch” surveys a backyard, seemingly the same yard depicted in Elam’s ” Backyard (Original) ” and ” Back Porch.” This particular rendering distinguishes itself for the patience the camera exercises as it spatially defines the porch: nearly the entirety of the first three minutes catalogs the ground, walls, and ceiling of the structure. As the film continues, the short shares relationship to “Backyard (Original),” seemingly rendering the same sequence of a woman hanging laundry. The piece concludes, taking to the yard to capture a female gardening.