May 9 – 12, 2024 | Pérez Art Museum Miami & Koubek Center | Miami, FL ✦
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Proximity Study (Sight Lines) is an attempt to measure closeness despite temporal distance. The filmmaker’s grandfather (whom she never met), a Black man from the US South, worked as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn waterfront for 37 years. From Governors Island, the filmmaker is able to look directly at his place of work; many years ago, he would have returned her gaze from the other side. “I filmed the Red Hook docks on 16mm film from my perspective on Governors Island, and rowed in the Buttermilk Channel between these two locations. The physical film print trailed behind the boat, tracing our route, recording our sight lines, and reaching to bridge the distance across the channel. Yet, the longer we rowed, the more the water erased the image.” – Elizabeth M. Webb
This film screens as part of the shorts program Sometimes I Imagine You A Little Lonely.
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Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker from Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. She has screened and exhibited worldwide. Elizabeth holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media from California Institute of the Arts.. She is co-editor with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez of the anthology FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024).
