JoAnn Elam Movies

USPS workers go bowling.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

“JoAnn & Susan x2” begins with a female protagonist, JoAnn Elam, playfully modeling a red, knit blanket, superimposed by a rider, JoAnn's...

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

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Joann Elam captures urban residents on the go in various seasons. The film begins in winter, as JoAnn captures sleepy neighborhood scenes from her...

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

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

Filmed in extreme close-up, the lit-up pine needles of a Christmas tree are abstracted into forms of line and contrast. “Christmas Tree”...

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.

A poetic tribute to the establishment of the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by JoAnn Elam's friend Bonner McAllester and her husband...

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

Gardening was an essential part of Elam’s life; she not only tended to her own, quite impressive, backyard garden, she also attained the status...

Abstract images of flames and fire.

“Windows” documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam’s Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. The first section...

Abstract short.

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

Two pumpkins.

Experimental filmmaker JoAnn Elam guides (or limits) the viewer's eyes down a rural, wooded path.