Silent Movies

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.

Digging in the woods.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Two pumpkins.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Prym ad by Pinschewer.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

Register of the events which occurred between 9 and 15 April 1948 in Bogota as a result of the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliécer...

Death awaits the souls of those who perished and interviews them before they move on.

Chicago streets.

USPS workers go bowling.

Farm work and nature.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

An outdoor gathering.

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

Abstract short.

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

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...