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JoAnn Elam Collection
[Christmas Lights & Snowy Morning]
“[Christmas Lights & Snowy Morning]” consists of two parts. The first section staggers around a dark room tinged with red light, recording a fe...
JoAnn Elam Collection
[Family Gathering]
This footage shows a few people gathered inside and opening presents, perhaps for Christmas. The date and location are unknown and the darkness of ...
JoAnn Elam Collection
The Christmas Story
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 pro...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Christmas Tree
Filmed in extreme close-up, the lit-up pine needles of a Christmas tree are abstracted into forms of line and contrast. "Christmas Tree" then moves...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Jack-O-Lanterns
“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...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Christmas Street
A Christmas parade in downtown Chicago is intercut with mail carriers on their routes, suggesting their role in delivering gifts during the holiday...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Christmas Lights
Christmas lights blink and move against the dark black background of night. This footage is identical to, and may be the original for, the second h...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Peggy / Centenniel
Clown antics on the beach during a sunny day are interspersed (and sometimes overlaid) with nighttime fireworks celebrating the Fourth of July in 1...
JoAnn Elam Collection
7/4/77
Filmed during the Fourth of July, 1977, "Peggy - 7/4/77" depicts a group of friends gathered to barbecue and watch fireworks from a Chicago apartme...
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