Silent Movies

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic

Silent cartoon.

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

Chicago streets.

Farm work and nature.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

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

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

A metallic cacophony resounds as Eric hunts for, and labours through, abandoned scrap. The sun beats down as his pick-up truck rumbles through the...

A gentleman of France

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single...

An Irish Romeo and Juliet set in 18th Century during the Penal Laws. Ends with the marriage of a Catholic aristocrat and the daughter of Protestant...

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

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

At home, outdoors. Street shots.