Silent Movies

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

Short silent animated film

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

Short animated film

Two pumpkins.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Digging in the woods.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

Farm work and nature.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

A teenager turns to filming their family after the loss of their mother.

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...