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JoAnn Elam (April 20, 1949 – June 25, 2009) was a Chicago-based filmmaker. Her films explored the themes of feminism and she was best known for her film Rape (1978). Elam also worked on other political and social documentaries such as her unfinished film Everyday People (1979–1990).
Not only did Elam's work focus on these themes but she also focused on everyday life in her films. While living in San Francisco,California, and Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she attended Antioch College, Elam had completed these everyday life documentary films. These films and her other films were produced on 16mm and 8mm films, but mainly 8mm.
Her films Rape and Everyday People have been subjects of great interest. Rape has been seen and applauded by many including authors of feminist film criticism journals and reviewers of the film. It has given women the power to speak up about experiences with rape and allowed them to be angry instead of keeping it all in. Everyday People has been on the art and film worlds’ interests because of its uncompleted state and the insight into the postal service, which she used to work for.
Most Popular JoAnn Elam Trailers
Total trailers found: 50
31 December 1975
A myriad of purple and blue markings flicker hypnotically across the screen in “Filmabuse.” Periodically a blue screen flashes, disturbing the trance induced by the colorful smudges.
01 January 1984
This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.
01 January 1979
An outdoor gathering.
01 January 1976
Sprocket holes moving across the screen.
01 January 1984
Contrasting environments, in and outside.
01 January 1982
At home, outdoors. Street shots.
01 January 1978
8mm. experimental film shot by JoAnn Elam in Sanibel, Florida.
01 January 1973
Chicago streets.
01 January 1974
Shot from the inside of a house and through a window's curtains, one can sometimes distinguish the colorful flowers in the yard outside.
01 January 1974
Two pumpkins.
01 January 1967
This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco, where Elam spent the “Summer of Love” in 1967 and which she perhaps visited again later.
01 January 1975
Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. Apparently the source for "Filmabuse" (F.
01 January 1972
The ancient art of Tai Chi transitions seamlessly into the fluid movements of bowling. Exact date of production unknown.
01 January 1974
Images of Christmas lights at night, a group of baton-twirlers in the street, postal carriers, kids walking down the street, etc.
01 January 1984
Two women gardening on a sunny day.
01 January 1979
Footage documenting Chicago's famed "Blizzard of '79," including some early examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and postal carriers delivering mail.
01 January 1976
USPS workers go bowling.
01 January 1976
Similar to her "Back Porch" films, JoAnn Elam's "Front Porch" documents the scenes of life in her neighborhood in Chicago.
01 January 1974
Abstract direct animation film made by JoAnn Elam.
01 January 1975
“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement.
01 January 1969
It's nice outside, take a stroll in the woods but be careful.
01 January 1984
Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.
01 January 1971
Filmed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, "Woman's Place & Dance" features a group of young women and men running around and enjoying themselves on the grass outside.
01 January 1981
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 Square, Chicago, for a summer barbecue.
01 January 1973
Abstract images of flames and fire.
01 January 1976
Farm work and nature.
01 January 1973
Experimental film by Chicago filmmaker JoAnn Elam (1949-2009). Altered lyrics to the song "Chains" sit atop animated images of grains.
01 January 1979
“JoAnn & Susan x2” begins with a female protagonist, JoAnn Elam, playfully modeling a red, knit blanket, superimposed by a rider, JoAnn's sister Susan Elam, and her steed moseying around a indoor corral in Grayslake, IL.
01 January 1974
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 many walks together, the film shakes and mirrors the excitement and chaos of a dog's life.
01 January 1981
Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.
01 January 1980
Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.
01 January 1974
“Windows” documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam’s Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago.
01 January 1970
Optical printing experiments of a 16mm pornographic film.
01 January 1973
This film celebrates the frenzy of light and color found amid exploding fireworks and the speeding headlights of cars on a nighttime road.
01 January 1980
Joann Elam captures urban residents on the go in various seasons. The film begins in winter, as JoAnn captures sleepy neighborhood scenes from her snowy Logan Square windowsill.
01 January 1985
JoAnn Elam plants collards.
01 January 1976
Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.
01 January 1975
A poetic tribute to the establishment of the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by JoAnn Elam's friend Bonner McAllester and her husband Joe Baker.
01 January 1978
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 backyard, a young family boating in a small lake, toddlers playing & bathing outdoors, a young girl and her stuffed animal and a children's birthday party with a pi?ata.
01 January 1973
Experimental filmmaker JoAnn Elam guides (or limits) the viewer's eyes down a rural, wooded path.
01 January 1971
A woman wakes up, gets dressed, makes breakfast and walks down the street. This daily ritual becomes extraordinary seen in a trance-like structure of continuous lap dissolves and continuous spectral color shifts.
01 January 1990
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 Service in Chicago (primarily the Logan Square neighborhood).
01 May 1979
Portraits of Chuck’s cats and friends, as well as a self-portrait.
01 January 1981
Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue likely at the home of JoAnn Elam and Joe Hendrix, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers that included Elam and filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans.
01 January 1980
Gardening was an essential part of Elam’s life; she not only tended to her own, quite impressive, backyard garden, she also attained the status of Master Gardener and then helped Chicago communities develop gardens and landscape neighborhoods.
01 January 1982
Lie Back & Enjoy It is a dialectical film about the politics of representation. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of women, and some printed titles.
01 January 1974
Set to the Beatles 1965 song "You Like Me Too Much," Daytime Television consists of a series of close-up handheld pans of cleaning supply labels and packaging.
01 January 1975
Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.
01 January 1973
Images of a shadow puppet play, intermittent rapid editing, and sweeping shots of a farm, dogs playing outside, plants, kitchens and interiors, provide a naturalistic portrait of peaceful spaces and friends.
01 January 1973
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 proceeded to ignore both her and the chocolate cake she made for the occasion.
