Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue in Logan Square, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers th...
![[Camera Test with JoAnn Elam]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/5/0/11454_ca_object_representations_media_5029_small.jpg)
Friends Chuck Kleinhans and JoAnn Elam experiment with a 16mm camera by testing camera distance and F-stops in this black-and-white, silent footage.
Julia Lesage has described Rape as "an explicitly feminist documentary film which uses experimental techniques" in order to tell the stories of rap...
An eight-minute dialectical film about the politics of representation. More specifically, it examines the politics of filmic representation of wome...
Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's Everyday People, featuring mail carrier Nancy Morgan as she delivers mail in the Logan Square/Palmer Square nei...
"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...
“J.E. Titles” briefly marquees the filmmakers name. Steeped in a film grain milieu, white letters (similar to those strewn about in Elam’s “Letter ...
![[Plants]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/3/4/16515_ca_object_representations_media_3477_small.jpg)
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 ...
![[Syrup Production]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/3/4/41882_ca_object_representations_media_3404_small.jpg)
“[Syrup Production]” opens establishing locale, Monterey Maple (via signage), and in so, Elam adds another visual representation of Monterey to the...
"Pup Birth" captures the excitement, chaos, and tenderness between a dog and her newly-born litter of puppies. In intimate close-up, the puppies cr...
This element by JoAnn Elam consists of two title cards written in gold letters against a black background. The first one reads “JoAnn Elam,” the fi...
8mm See It / Cabena Test shows a man standing on a fire escape followed by a woman walking back and forth inside what looks like a store (...
In this footage shot from the inside of a house and through a window’s curtains, one can sometimes distinguish the colorful flowers in the yard out...
Abstract images of flames and fire, including wide shots of the fireplace itself. This film appears to be an 8mm test or outtake for JoAnn Elam's 1...
The first part of Soap + Fire consists of a panning shot (left to right) over bottles and boxes of cleaning supply, which JoAnn Elam might...
This title by JoAnn Elam includes a close-up of a dog food label (out of focus), what appears to be typed title cards for Elam’s film Lie Back ...