Silent Movies

Silent cartoon.

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

USPS workers go bowling.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

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...

Three men drive into the desert at night to wrestle with an unspeakable evil.

Silent cartoon.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Digging in the woods.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Two pumpkins.

An exercise in no-budget filmmaking made over a two day span.

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.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

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

At home, outdoors. Street shots.