Disabuse

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

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

Farm work and nature.

USPS workers go bowling.

Chicago streets.

Documentary that details the daily habits of beavers and their interaction with the ecosystem at large. Filmed mostly in Digby County, Nova Scotia.

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...