JoAnn Elam Filmes

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.

Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue likely at the home of JoAnn Elam and Joe Hendrix, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" —...

An outdoor gathering.

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...

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

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

Intimate portrayal of children at home and outsde in a park. At the start, a baby rolls around on the floor of a living room and bounces in a...

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

A poetic tribute to the establishment of the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by JoAnn Elam's friend Bonner McAllester and her husband...

Similar to her "Back Porch" films, JoAnn Elam's "Front Porch" documents the scenes of life in her neighborhood in Chicago. The film pays especial...

Set to the Beatles 1965 song "You Like Me Too Much," Daytime Television consists of a series of close-up handheld pans of cleaning supply labels and...

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

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

Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.2011-01-0262) and...

Farm work and nature.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Abstract short.

USPS workers go bowling.

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...

Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.