Elizabeth Paige Smith Art Unable To Fly

Elizabeth Paige Smith Art Unable to Fly, filmed in Lone Pine in California.

UNABLE TO FLY

 

digital video / 8 minutes 38 seconds / 2008

DIRECTED + CAMERA + EDITED: Elizabeth Paige Smith

LOCATION: Death Valley, California

Spontaneity is at the root of all EPS film and film stills. For the making of Unable To Fly, EPS shot her subject, Ryan, on location near Death Valley while directing him on site. 

In this intimate dream story, EPS applies her signature in-camera effects, inter-personal connection with subject, and experimentation with sounds of the landscape and time. Here, as can be found in her other films or sound works, wind is a fierce element, presented as raw as possible, and as much of a character as the subject himself. Wind, water, and earth elements are a recurring theme throughout EPS works.

 

FILM STILLS

 

untitled film still I / light jet c print / 38.75 x 58 inches / 2007

acrylic mounted edition of 3, 2 APs

untitled film still II / light jet c print / 40 x 59 inches / 2007

acrylic mounted edition of 3, 2 APs