“A particularly creative example of the pinscreen animation technique, this film is about an artist who steps inside his painting and wanders about...
A short amateur experimental film featuring mid-century paintings from Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kadinsky, Piet Mondrianand Joan Miro. Title card anno...
A compilation reel featuring candid footage and interviews with various prominent members of the early-'80s Chicago independent film scene, many of...;Most well-known for his off-beat and darkly comedic documentaries about life on the margins, legendary Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo took his fir...
This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl is from around 1963 and it shows adults and children at an art fair, probably in or around Chicago. Among...
László Moholy-Nagy, one of the leading figures in the Bauhaus, made this short film based on the shadow patterns of his Light-Space M...
A series of short experimental and commercial sequences, most likely used as a sample/pitch reel, that utilizes various animated and live action te...
“Palmer Square Art Fair” documents the festive bustling at the eponymous park, a locale in several of Elam’s films. Elam pans around the park spli...
Filmed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, "Woman's Place & Dance" features a group of young women and men running around and enjoying th...
Shot by JoAnn Elam in 1983 at the Palmer Square Art Fair in Chicago, this footage shows the participants of the fair interacting, playing music, an...
"This film is conceived as a "picture postcard." The picture side of the "post card" is equivalent to the moving film imag...
Venus and Adonis offers a playful retelling of the Classical myth. Filmed at Chicago's North Avenue Beach, filmmaker Tom Palazzolo plays t...
Hexagrams is a film of surrealistic nature. In the film, all types of images flash quickly on screen. Images include fried eggs, Marlboro ...
During the years 1967 and 1969, Byron collected images and experimented with abstractions. Inkaboos was created during this period. It wa...
This film is about circles. The first circular object on screen is a roll of film, the following is an orange, and thereafter, Byron’s film is a jo...
This film appears to focus on the female body in an artistic and colorful manner through the use of superimposition and flashes of repeated scenes....
Flesh Colored Crayons was completed in 1992. This film includes an array of animated scenes and sporadic phrases flashing on screen. The scenes are...
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