Silent Movies

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Two pumpkins.

Short animated film

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

An outdoor gathering.

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

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

Follows a fictitious account about Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, known as Johann Orth, after he renounces his titles.

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

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street...

USPS workers go bowling.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Digging in the woods.