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Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's Everyday People, featuring mail carrier Nancy Morgan as she delivers mail in the Logan Square/Palmer Square nei...

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

This footage was most likely shot in a residential neighborhood of Chicago, where JoAnn Elam lived most of her life. The camera pans over the house...

In this black-and-white footage, JoAnn Elam films a butterfly in extreme close-up and close-up, a group of friends outside a house in the countrysi...

 “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...

This 8mm film by JoAnn Elam was shot in Chicago around 1984. It features an unidentified woman, perhaps a neighbor, and (very briefly) Chuck Kleinh...

Elam wanders about an art fair in “Palmer Square Art Fair ’85,” documenting the happenings of the event. Setting scale, the short begins on the out...

"Windows" documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam's Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. The first section begins at an El t...

"Back Yard (right)," along with its counterpart "JoAnn Elam Collection

"Back Yard (left)," along with its counterpart "JoAnn Elam Collection

Elam’s “El Shots,” sharing footage and theme with Elam’s “El,” sketches travel in Chicago. From people scurrying across intersections, to cars blur...

Footage documenting the famed "Blizzard of '79," including examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and a postal carrier deliveri...

The original, edited footage for Elam's dual projection film "Back Yard." The first half was made into the print "Ba...

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

"Test Backyard" explores the different views of the area surrounding and within JoAnn Elam's Logan Square backyard (a frequent locale in her work)....

As its title indicates, [Kids Playing on the Street] by JoAnn Elam consists of shots of children and teenagers playing and running around ...