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Home movie footage of suburban residential yard scenes.

“[Syrup Production]” opens establishing locale, Monterey Maple (via signage), and in so, Elam adds another visual representation of Monterey to the...

Coming around a bend, saturated and noisy images introduce a murky day on a country road as rhythmically a wiper chops across the windshield, and t...

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...

The meandering camera establishes a rural Monterey, in the likeness as depcted in Elam's other Monterey films. "Monterey Maple Farm 81" consists of...

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 85” acts as an ensemble of sorts tracing several principles engaging and interacting with Monterey’s rural scenery, as also depicted in E...

“Monterey Maple Farms Out” generally renders the process in which maple syrup goes from sap to syrup. Cataloging the structures involved—a sugarhou...

"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 ...

“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 ...

This footage was most likely shot in a residential neighborhood of Chicago, where JoAnn Elam lived most of her life. The camera pans over the house...

“[Christmas Lights & Snowy Morning]” consists of two parts. The first section staggers around a dark room tinged with red light, recording a fe...

“Moving” opens out of focus as the camera tentatively (and shakily) depicts green foliage covering the orange and white siding of a U-Haul truck. S...

Shot in 1984 in Monterey, MA, this footage shows a log cabin, the nature surrounding it, and two women gardening on a sunny day. JoAnn Elam’s inter...

This film's images consist of recreational types barbequing and loitering about a backyard superimposed on seemingly a spatial survey of the same b...