“Garden ‘82” studies what appears to be Elam’s Logan Square backyard, a locale frequently used in Elam’s work. The footage focuses on the space of ...
"Garden #2" documents JoAnn Elam, her second husband Joe Hendrix, and an unidentified man in the backyard garden of Elam's Logan Square apartment i...
This 8mm home movie from the JoAnn Elam Collection shows Elam gardening outside her home in Chicago around 1984 and captures Elam’s interest in gar...
"84 Garden 2" documents JoAnn Elam working in the garden of her Logan Square residence in Chicago. Based on her consistent outfit, the film appears...
"Ice Lakes - Garden 1 '84" begins with footage of ice clinging to docks along Lake Michigan on the north side of Chicago, the cityscape visible in ...
“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
Similar to other garden films in the JoAnn Elam Collection, "Garden 84" features Elam and, briefly, her second husband Joe Hendrix, at work in Elam...
Elam’s “Janssen Porch/Garden ’79” opens bewilderingly focused on wavering tree branches. Panning away, the camera, from high a vantage, notes the e...
The original, edited footage for Elam's dual projection film "Back Yard." The first half was made into the print "Ba...
"Test Backyard" explores the different views of the area surrounding and within JoAnn Elam's Logan Square backyard (a frequent locale in her work)....
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...
Using a long pole with a cloth basket attached, JoAnn Elam's husband, Joe Hendrix, gathers apples from the upper branches of a large tree, sometime...
Experimental home movie documenting a visit by filmmakers Wayne and Eleanor Boyer and their nine-year-old son Brett to JoAnn Elam’s home in Logan S...
One of the longest of the garden films in the JoAnn Elam Collection, "Garden 85" appears to document the entirety of the 1985 growing season of Ela...
As its name suggests, "Lake & Planetarium - Garden - Go Bears" consists of three distinct sections: The first features JoAnn Elam and an uniden...