Elizabeth L. Smith
Writing
Biography
Elizabeth L. Smithg is a filmmaker, and an ardent admirer of stories about truth, recognition, love and loss. Elizabeth L. Smith is a Co-Director on the documentary short, ‘The Artists’, an Executive Producer and Co–Writer on the independent, narrative feature film, 'Adam Bloom', and a Producer and Story Editor on the short film, 'Disappearing Man'. Smith also produces and direct documentary-style projects for a wide-range of clients, including Microsoft, Four Seasons, Northwell Health and the DownEast Salmon Federation.
Known For
An aspiring photographer balances responsibilities of caring for an ailing grandmother and an internship with an aging photo artist.
Adam Bloom
Disappearing Man is an intimate film portrait of TriBeCa artist Robert Janz - whose ephemeral, streetscape water paintings reflect on the impermanence of the artist’s own life. Robert Janz’s unique artistic medium is water on brick, stone or concrete. He paints totemic words on New York City façades and sidewalks. Janz’s self-erasing word paintings challenge the serendipitous viewer to reflect on the contradictory nature of artistic practices that often capture and immortalize both a fleeting moment in time and the mortal artist that captured it. In capturing this story of the artist at work, the film evokes Janz’s philosophical musings on practicing an art form that is very much a metaphor for his own mortality. Both the filmmaker and the viewer clearly become not just observers but students of Janz and his art.