Film Identifier: F.2011-01-0050

Part Of: Subseries I: Films

Run Time
0h 5m 14s

Format
8mm

Color
Color

Sound
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.

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