Silent Movies

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Short animated film

Abstract short.

Digging in the woods.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

Farm work and nature.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the...

USPS workers go bowling.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

A teenager turns to filming their family after the loss of their mother.

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...