A travelogue film that portrays the lively culture of the Canary Islands; specifically, the island of Tenerife. The footage also captures the dry, ...
A fickle (or is it haunted?!) elevator disrupts a man’s daily routine, ending tragically in a stairwell. Written & Directed by Chicago-born Robert ...
An animated film about a man who gets caught up in his imagination while reading a book. His reveries are interrupted by his wife who continually e...
An advertisement for People's Gas Company about their low cost recipe program. The ad features a mom cooking in a kitchen with her children.
A comedic sales film for Campbell-Mithun, Inc.'s Ac'cent Flavor Enhancer product. The film begins with a husband and wife duo separately lounging a...
This footage by JoAnn Elam from around 1974 shows Elam’s home in Chicago, her dog, her books and cans of films, her garden through the window, natu...
“Back Porch” surveys a backyard, seemingly the same yard depicted in Elam’s “JoAnn Elam Collection
“Back Porch” surveys a backyard, seemingly the same yard depicted in Elam’s “JoAnn Elam Collection
Through a decent amount of visual noise, "Cats & Kittens" parallels, in two sections, the quaint evening happenings of a group of humans and ca...
The film consists of a series of shots documenting the making of a chocolate cake, followed by a shot of JoAnn's sandaled foot stepping in the midd...
Elam’s “Janssen Porch/Garden ’79” opens bewilderingly focused on wavering tree branches. Panning away, the camera, from high a vantage, notes the e...
“Belden & Kimball” lurks around a porch, seemingly the same elevated overlook Elam used to shoot from in several of her other works, e.g. <...
“Fire on Wayne” consists of Elam capturing smoke and flames billowing out of a home. Through longer, observational shots (opposed to Elam’s oft di...
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 a...
“Jack-O-Lanterns” weaves forward and backward, rendering a pair of jack-o-lanterns in a milieu of grainy visual noise from a variety of perspective...
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