“Windows” retracts in and out from the longing vantage of several windows (seemingly ones of Elam’s Logan Square home). Beginning in a dark room, the short immediately depicts contrasting environments, in- and outside, which are brought to juxtaposition via these windows. Tromboning, the camera focuses on objects outside, e.g. a discarded box of Miller Lite and a lonely bird on a wire, as well as objects inside, e.g. a cat (who frequents Elam’s work) dawdling along a window seal.
Windows
Windows
Video:
Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Date:
1984
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
Color
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 2m 6s
Abstract:
"Windows" retracts in and out from the longing vantage of several windows (seemingly ones of Elam's Logan Square home). Beginning in a dark room, the short immediately depicts contrasting environments, in- and outside, which are brought to juxtaposition via these windows. Tromboning, the camera focuses on objects outside, e.g. a discarded box of Miller Lite and a lonely bird on a wire, as well as objects inside, e.g. a cat (who frequents Elam's work) dawdling along a window seal.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
Animals, Architecture, Domestic life
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7841
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive