Through a series of pans around what appears to Elam’s Logan Square backyard (a frequent locale in her work), “Winter Garden” meticulously records a fresh blanket of snow. The virgin snow fragilely lies as the camera skims atop recording dead plants and planks of wood that poke through. The majority of pans remains slow;however, as they and the edits increase frequency, the footage jumps in time, showing the garden with foot prints about and the sidewalk shoveled.
Winter Garden
Winter Garden
Video:
Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Date:
1981
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
Color
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 9m 11s
Abstract:
Through a series of pans around what appears to Elam's Logan Square backyard (a frequent locale in her work), "Winter Garden" meticulously records a fresh blanket of snow. The virgin snow fragilely lies as the camera skims atop recording dead plants and planks of wood that poke through. The majority of pans remains slow;however, as they and the edits increase frequency, the footage jumps in time, showing the garden with foot prints about and the sidewalk shoveled.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
Domestic life, Gardens, Winter
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7844
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive