"Back Yard (right)," along with its counterpart "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...
![[Postal Workers' Washington DC Protest]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/3/7/20469_ca_object_representations_media_3748_small.jpg)
In this footage, JoAnn Elam follows postal workers during a protest that their unions organized in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s. Prominently...
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...
JoAnn Elam's unfinished project, EVERYDAY PEOPLE (filmed from 1979 to 1990), is based on her experiences as a letter carrier for the US Postal Serv...