Sprockets
Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0050
Part Of: Subseries I: Films
Run Time
0h 5m 14s
0h 5m 14s
Format
8mm
8mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Silent
Abstract
As its title indicates, JoAnn Elam’s Sprockets shows the sprocket holes of a film strip moving vertically and then horizontally across the screen. In light of Elam’s experimental work and especially in our digital age, this footage reads as a reflection on the physicality of the filmic medium, whose visual, hypnotic power here comes from the film object itself.
As its title indicates, JoAnn Elam’s Sprockets shows the sprocket holes of a film strip moving vertically and then horizontally across the screen. In light of Elam’s experimental work and especially in our digital age, this footage reads as a reflection on the physicality of the filmic medium, whose visual, hypnotic power here comes from the film object itself.
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Genre
Form
Related Place
Chicago (represents)