JoAnn Elam Movies

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.

Intimate portrayal of children at home and outsde in a park. At the start, a baby rolls around on the floor of a living room and bounces in a...

A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of...

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of...

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

Abstract images of flames and fire.

Chicago streets.

“JoAnn & Susan x2” begins with a female protagonist, JoAnn Elam, playfully modeling a red, knit blanket, superimposed by a rider, JoAnn's...

Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

Footage documenting Chicago's famed "Blizzard of '79," including some early examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and postal...

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

"Closet Film" flickers hues of white and yellow intermittently. Stretching to its halfway point, the frame cuts to black as a myriad of blues barrage...

Farm work and nature.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Digging in the woods.

Experimental home movie documenting a visit by filmmakers Wayne and Eleanor Boyer and their nine-year-old son Brett to JoAnn Elam's home in Logan...

The ancient art of Tai Chi transitions seamlessly into the fluid movements of bowling. Exact date of production unknown.