Silent Movies

A boy sits alone in his room, but he hears a noise. What is this noise, who is making it?

A young woman was buried alive with the intention of killing, but she survived by chance. hears the cries of her little girl and fights to stay alive...

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he...

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

A young woman re-lives her past relationship through a series of silhouettes in the night's sky.

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

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

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

USPS workers go bowling.

Following a young man as he navigates his way through an essay, slowly finding that the subject matter is becoming a part of his life that he...

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

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

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the...

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

A young man races to deliver a letter in time for his mother's birthday.

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

Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching...

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