JoAnn Elam Movies

Filmed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, "Woman's Place & Dance" features a group of young women and men running around and enjoying...

8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.

The ancient art of Tai Chi transitions seamlessly into the fluid movements of bowling. Exact date of production unknown.

A series of home move style shots of a mother and her young child crawling outdoors. Scenes include a mother and toddler playing in a Chicago...

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco, where Elam spent the “Summer of Love” in 1967 and which she perhaps...

Farm work and nature.

Similar to her "Back Porch" films, JoAnn Elam's "Front Porch" documents the scenes of life in her neighborhood in Chicago. The film pays especial...

"Popcorn" begins with a teenaged boy reading from an unknown text inside a living room. JoAnn Elam is seen knitting, presumably nearby, before...

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Two pumpkins.

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

Digging in the woods.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Experimental home movie documenting a visit by filmmakers Wayne and Eleanor Boyer and their nine-year-old son Brett to JoAnn Elam's home in Logan...

Intimate portrayal of children at home and outsde in a park. At the start, a baby rolls around on the floor of a living room and bounces in a...

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicago's experimental film scene gathered at JoAnn's house and...

An affectionate and humorous portrayal of the relationship between a woman and her dog. As the dog explores the world and meets other dogs on their...

Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.