Back Porch
Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0140
Run Time
0h 8m 31s
0h 8m 31s
Format
8mm
8mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Silent
Date Produced
1977
1977
Abstract
“Back Porch” surveys a backyard, seemingly the same yard depicted in Elam’s “Backyard (Original)” and “Back Porch.” This particular rendering distinguishes itself for the patience the camera exercises as it spatially defines the porch: nearly the entirety of the first three minutes catalogs the ground, walls, and ceiling of the structure. As the film continues, the short shares relationship to “Backyard (Original),” seemingly rendering the same sequence of a woman hanging laundry. The piece concludes, taking to the yard to capture a female gardening.
“Back Porch” surveys a backyard, seemingly the same yard depicted in Elam’s “Backyard (Original)” and “Back Porch.” This particular rendering distinguishes itself for the patience the camera exercises as it spatially defines the porch: nearly the entirety of the first three minutes catalogs the ground, walls, and ceiling of the structure. As the film continues, the short shares relationship to “Backyard (Original),” seemingly rendering the same sequence of a woman hanging laundry. The piece concludes, taking to the yard to capture a female gardening.
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Genre
Form
Related Place
Chicago (represents)