This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl dates back to around 1965, when the couple travelled to Isra?l. It includes images of the desert, security checkpoints, local men and women, camels and donkeys, children playing outside and enjoying the pool, monuments, and artisans, among others. The Goldsholls filmed many of their trips to Israel
This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Greece around 1965. In Athens, their camera focuses on the ruins of an (unidentified) archaeological site, the Parthenon and its surroundings, and the Presidential Guard. The Goldsholls also film scenes of everyday life, including vendors at a market, locals walking home, and children
This color footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl is from around 1959 and it includes images of a circus sideshow, various domestic and wild animals like a cat, turkeys, pink flamingos, parrots, and donkeys, and natural landscapes, together with animated geometric shapes, various other images intercut at a rapid pace, and footage of a stained
This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their stay in Israel and Denmark ca. 1964. In Israel, the Goldsholls are drawn to monuments, simple houses, the harbor, children playing on the streets, teenagers playing soccer on a field, and travellers landing and their families greeting them at the airport. Then, they capture moments
Millie Goldsholl’s Rebellion of the Flowers (1992) appears to be the last film she completed and one that she poured an incredible amount of creative passion and energy into. Completed three years before her husband’s death, the film is dedicated to “Morton Goldsholl and the Good People who resist the abuse of power in any
The following is adapted from a short presentation given by Brian Belak, Collections Manager for Chicago Film Archives, at the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, on December 1, 2017. The panel “Woman Behind the Camera: Uncovering An Overlooked Perspective” also featured archivists from Northeast Historic Film, the Lesbian Home
On April 20, 2007, Chicago Film Archives Executive Director Nancy Watrous interviewed Millie Goldsholl, filmmaker and designer, at her home in Highland Park, Illinois. The following edited excerpts feature Millie describing her earliest work at the School of Design (now the IIT Institute of Design) in Chicago, where she studied under Hungarian-born artist László Moholy-Nagy.
By Olivia Babler Since joining Chicago Film Archives as a transfer technician last October, one of my main long-term projects has consisted of inspecting, stabilizing and digitizing films from the Mort & Millie Goldsholl Collection as part of the “Woman Behind the Camera” project. While the couple are best known for their mid-century graphic design
By Justin Dean and Brian Belak One of our missions for the Woman Behind the Camera project is to digitize and make accessible online the film work of JoAnn Elam, but as can be the case, that has sometimes turned out easier said than done. Recently, we found a curious reel labeled “Filmabuse (Original)” that
By Aurore Spiers, University of Chicago The JoAnn Elam Collection (1967-1990) at Chicago Film Archives (CFA) consists of approximately 735 film, video, audio elements and some paper material, which JoAnn Elam’s husband Joe Hendrix donated in 2011. In addition to Elam’s best known films, such as Rape (1975) and Lie Back and Enjoy It (1982),