Inspired in part by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and set to music from Wagner's opera Lohengrin, Richardson's technically ...
A short film centered on a woman idly walking through a farm, and along the shores of a beach. Some of the imagery is meant to recall the story of ...
This color footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl is from around 1959 and it includes images of a circus sideshow, various domestic and wild animals ...
"3 Goats and a Gruff" is presumed to be Elam's first finished film, made while she lived in Yellow Springs, OH, in the late 1960s. In this fable, a...
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Like some other elements in this collection, this footage by JoAnn Elam is somewhat inscrutable. The image is mostly faint, except for a few shots ...
B/W Mich, NY + Mass starts with black and white shots of nature taken in the woods, possibly in Michigan or Monterey, MA, which JoAnn Elam...
JoAnn Elam’s Elma + Deans opens with several shots of a church, perhaps near Elma, NY, where Elam spent some time with her family as a chi...
Monterey Maple Farm Bird and Wasp Feeder belongs to a series of elements shot by JoAnn Elam at a farm in Monterey, MA, over the course of ...
"Monterey '80" documents a visit in 1980 by JoAnn Elam and her husband Joe Hendrix to the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by Elam's ...
Shot from a flying airplane, this footage by JoAnn Elam first shows a series of landscapes near the ocean, clouds, and the geometrical grids of Ame...
Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.
This short footage by JoAnn Elam shows two women digging a hole in the woods. As many elements in this collection reveal, Elam was interested in fa...
This footage resembles many other elements in this collection, where JoAnn Elam investigates the potentialities of the cinematic medium to capture ...
In this footage, JoAnn Elam films a covered bridge and the nature surrounding it in the woods. The camera sometimes lingers on the bridge in a long...
Using stop motion, JoAnn Elam animates a series of pictures drawn by hand and depicting pink, purple, and blue flowers, trees, and suns. Although t...
Like many other elements in the JoAnn Elam collection, BC revels in and reveals the beauty of the nature surrounding us. From a fixed stan...