Silent Movies

Silent cartoon.

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street...

Chicago streets.

Farm work and nature.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

An outdoor gathering.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

Digging in the woods.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Abstract short.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Two pumpkins.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.