Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0174d

Part Of: Subseries I: Films

Run Time
0h 5m 0s

Format
8mm

Color
Color

Sound
Silent

Date Produced
circa 1976

Abstract
Elam’s “El Shots,” sharing footage and theme with Elam’s “El,” sketches travel in Chicago. From people scurrying across intersections, to cars blurring down pavement, to watching buildings whizz by from an El-situated vantage (seemingly the Blue Line), Elam outlines how people orient the city as well as juxtaposes said locomotion with meandering individuals, e.g. children playing. 

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