Dark BBQ
Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0109
Run Time
0h 4m 32s
0h 4m 32s
Format
8mm
8mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Silent
Date Produced
1984
1984
Abstract
This slightly underexposed home movie from the JoAnn Elam Collection features Elam and film scholar Julia Lesage talking outside by the barbecue grill, before other friends join them, including film scholar and Lesage’s partner Chuck Kleinhans. In 1974, Kleinhans, Lesage, and John Hess had founded the film journal Jump Cut, which engaged critically with the vibrant community of critics and experimental filmmakers in Chicago at that time. As this footage indicates, Elam had close ties with this community.
This slightly underexposed home movie from the JoAnn Elam Collection features Elam and film scholar Julia Lesage talking outside by the barbecue grill, before other friends join them, including film scholar and Lesage’s partner Chuck Kleinhans. In 1974, Kleinhans, Lesage, and John Hess had founded the film journal Jump Cut, which engaged critically with the vibrant community of critics and experimental filmmakers in Chicago at that time. As this footage indicates, Elam had close ties with this community.
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Kleinhans, Charles (is participant)
Lesage, Julia (is participant)
Elam, JoAnn (is participant)
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Place
Chicago (production location of)