Silent Movies

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

An experimental silent, based around the daily life of captive house cats.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

An insoluble quest.

A silent student short film with lots of drama. Courtesy of Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal Qc.

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

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

Two men search for the end of the world, but the journey is far stranger than they anticipated.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Following a young man as he navigates his way through an essay, slowly finding that the subject matter is becoming a part of his life that he...

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Chicago streets.

A young woman re-lives her past relationship through a series of silhouettes in the night's sky.

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

Silent cartoon.

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old...

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

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

The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.