Silent Movies

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.

A man wakes up in a forest with a mysterious mask stuck to his face and a note with a girl's face depicted.

After getting involved in a car accident, a depressed, isolated, and chronically online girl tries to cut back her internet addiction and reconnect...

Register of the events which occurred between 9 and 15 April 1948 in Bogota as a result of the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliécer...

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Abstract short.

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

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

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

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film....

A jar of Cheez Whiz careens wildly through a Treasure Island Foods at 3460 N. Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. Cheez Whiz was Norm Bruns' first film. It...

Exploring the Anthropocene era characterized by human impact on the planet, this is an enlightening VR film that examines an emerging superpower...

Short silent animated film

USPS workers go bowling.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.