JoAnn Elam Movies

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of...

Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

In this footage by JoAnn Elam, almost nothing is discernible, with the exception of buildings sometimes emerging in the dark and stripes of orange...

An outdoor gathering.

Abstract images of flames and fire, including wide shots of the fireplace itself. This film appears to be an 8mm test or outtake for JoAnn Elam's...

"Popcorn" begins with a teenaged boy reading from an unknown text inside a living room. JoAnn Elam is seen knitting, presumably nearby, before...

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicago's experimental film scene gathered at JoAnn's house and...

"Pup Birth" captures the excitement, chaos, and tenderness between a dog and her newly-born litter of puppies. In intimate close-up, the puppies...

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Set to the Beatles 1965 song "You Like Me Too Much," Daytime Television consists of a series of close-up handheld pans of cleaning supply labels and...

Abstract images of flames and fire.

USPS workers go bowling.

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

Farm work and nature.

Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue likely at the home of JoAnn Elam and Joe Hendrix, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" —...

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

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

Chicago streets.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.