JoAnn Elam Movies

Lie Back & Enjoy It is a dialectical film about the politics of representation. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of...

Chicago streets.

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

Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

"Closet Film" flickers hues of white and yellow intermittently. Stretching to its halfway point, the frame cuts to black as a myriad of blues barrage...

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

An outdoor gathering.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

JoAnn Elam's unfinished project, EVERYDAY PEOPLE (filmed from 1979 to 1990), is based on her experiences as a letter carrier for the US Postal...

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

Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.2011-01-0262) and...

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

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

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

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

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

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

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

Two pumpkins.