JoAnn Elam Movies

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicago's experimental film scene gathered at JoAnn's house and...

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

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of...

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

Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.

Joann Elam captures urban residents on the go in various seasons. The film begins in winter, as JoAnn captures sleepy neighborhood scenes from her...

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Shot from the inside of a house and through a window's curtains, one can sometimes distinguish the colorful flowers in the yard outside. But, as in...

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

In this footage by JoAnn Elam, almost nothing is discernible, with the exception of buildings sometimes emerging in the dark and stripes of orange...

Images of Christmas lights at night, a group of baton-twirlers in the street, postal carriers, kids walking down the street, etc. Exact date of...

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

Images of a shadow puppet play, intermittent rapid editing, and sweeping shots of a farm, dogs playing outside, plants, kitchens and interiors,...

Experimental home movie documenting a visit by filmmakers Wayne and Eleanor Boyer and their nine-year-old son Brett to JoAnn Elam's home in Logan...

“Windows” documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam’s Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. The first section...

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

This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco, where Elam spent the “Summer of Love” in 1967 and which she perhaps...

Experimental filmmaker JoAnn Elam guides (or limits) the viewer's eyes down a rural, wooded path.