Silent Movies

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

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

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

Prym ad by Pinschewer.

Based on George Ade's story about a wealthy young man whose life is changed by his love for a gardener's daughter, transforming him into a more...

An insoluble quest.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

A lone wanderer treks the solitary landscape of devoid suburbia, and something is missing... who is he? Where does he come from?

After getting involved in a car accident, a depressed, isolated, and chronically online girl tries to cut back her internet addiction and reconnect...

Andy Warhol directs The Factory regular Louisa "Jackie" Foster for a screen test.

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....

Government travelogue depicting New Zealand's West land's scenery: Lake Manapouri, Fox Glacier Hotel, and Franz Josef Glacier. From the Fox Glacier...

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...

Chicago streets.

An outdoor gathering.

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

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

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.