| Summary: | AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. This collection of black-and-white footage, shot by Elizabeth Woodman Wright between 1929 and 1934 in Paris, Maine, and Chocorua, New Hampshire, is quietly astonishing. Wright was a careful recorder of rural life. She did not create an obsessively ordered narrative structure with intertitles. Instead, she captured views of the farm called Windy Ledge, in the summer orchard, at haying time, and around the barn, over a period of five years. Her style fits the subject beautifully. The film is peaceful and unusual for amateur footage, leisurely--befitting its subject. --KARAN SHELDON In 1928, Elizabeth Woodman Wright bought a Kodak camera and began filming activities at Windy Ledge Farm, the family's summer farm in Paris, Maine. We know from her son, Walter Woodman Wright that she took care in preparing her filming, using a tripod, and capturing the passing of seasons. --KARAN SHELDON 16mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 16:33 minutes. Compiled by Bruce Posner and David Shepard.
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