Daytime Television
Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0279
Run Time
0h 3m 20s
0h 3m 20s
Format
16mm
16mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Optical
Abstract
Set to the Beatles 1965 song "You Like Me Too Much," Daytime Television consists of a series of close-up handheld pans of cleaning supply labels and packaging. Elam refuses to pull back and the abstracted visual effect is both dizzying, hypnotic, and full of rapidly flashing colors. The film looks at the feminist discourse of the "politics of housework," and of the anti-consumer discourse of the counterculture and left of the day.
Set to the Beatles 1965 song "You Like Me Too Much," Daytime Television consists of a series of close-up handheld pans of cleaning supply labels and packaging. Elam refuses to pull back and the abstracted visual effect is both dizzying, hypnotic, and full of rapidly flashing colors. The film looks at the feminist discourse of the "politics of housework," and of the anti-consumer discourse of the counterculture and left of the day.
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Place
Chicago (production location of)