JoAnn Elam Movies

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

It's nice outside, take a stroll in the woods but be careful.

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

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

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...

The title of this fast paced experimental film presumably refers to the American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and...

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...

Filmed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, "Woman's Place & Dance" features a group of young women and men running around and enjoying...

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

Abstract images of flames and fire.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

This film celebrates the frenzy of light and color found amid exploding fireworks and the speeding headlights of cars on a nighttime road. In the...

The ancient art of Tai Chi transitions seamlessly into the fluid movements of bowling. Exact date of production unknown.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.

Footage documenting Chicago's famed "Blizzard of '79," including some early examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and postal...

Experimental film by Chicago filmmaker JoAnn Elam (1949-2009). Altered lyrics to the song "Chains" sit atop animated images of grains. Exact date of...

At home, outdoors. Street shots.