Silent Movies

An outdoor gathering.

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

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

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

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

Farm work and nature.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

After Eve causes a cataclysmic event that sucks all apples into a dark void, the two surviving apples, must recruit the help of Steve Jobs and Isaac...

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...

After getting involved in a car accident, a depressed, isolated, and chronically online girl tries to cut back her internet addiction and reconnect...

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...

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old...

Chicago streets.

Abstract short.

Two pumpkins.

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

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...

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single...