37th Avenue SF CA (1967)

This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco where Elam spent the Summer of Love in 1967 and which she perhaps visited again later First rapidly edited the footage then slows down to focus on rows of houses the street numbers on their façades and their mail slots As 37th Av SF CA and many other elements about the US Post Office in this collection evidence what seems to have fascinated Elam about the mail was the way it circulated within neighborhoods from one house to the next thereby connecting the people who lived in them together At the end one handwritten note reads To be looked at one frame at a time some directions possibly referring to the following series of rapidly edited shots of nature and dogs running in a park