Silent Movies

Two girls spend the evening together. You'll never believe what happens next!

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Two pumpkins.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

A jaded used car salesman, under the threat of losing his job, struggles to find a car for his most difficult client yet: A group of circus clowns.

A silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

Short silent animated film

An insoluble quest.

A monster and his emperor scorpion are confined to a room.

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

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

What happens to art when it loses its artist?

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

A group of students hatch a risky plan to steal their principal’s lunch, but nothing goes quite as expected.

Prym ad by Pinschewer.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

A boy explains the various steps to making a bowl of cereal in a hilarious Charlie Chaplin-inspired scatter.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.