"A search for the true identity of the Beatles walrus. Is he preserved in stone in Crystal Palace Park? Is he lurking in Henry VIII's suit of armor...
"The one with all the ass. A lively abstraction of a sexy summer day in downtown Chicago." - Center Cinema Co-Op Filmmakers' Distribution Catal...
Kenji Kanesaka, one of the founding members of the “Film Independent” group and the Japan Filmmakers Co-op in Tokyo, was commissioned by Chicago pr...
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...
Back in 1957, Mort & Millie loaded the kids in the back of the car and headed downtown. Mort drove while Millie shot out the window. The result of ...
Back in 1957, Mort & Millie loaded the kids in the back of the car and headed downtown. Mort drove while Millie shot out the window. The result of ...
A short version of Mort & Millie Goldsholl's Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
Back in 1957, Mort & Millie loaded the kids in the back of the car and headed downtown. Mort drove while Millie shot out the window. The result of ...
Film experiments shot by Rhodes Patterson and John Massey of the Container Corporation of America. Includes hand-drawn and stop motion animation as...
Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.
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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...