This footage by JoAnn Elam shows members of the Chicago city council during one of their meetings around 1973. As in other elements from this collection that show the city council, she mostly films one speaking member after another from behind, as she was probably sitting in the back. Elam started working as a letter
This footage by JoAnn Elam shows members of the Chicago city council during one of their meetings around 1973. As in two other element from this collection titled [City Council 1] and [City Council 2], she mostly films one speaking member after another from behind, as she was probably sitting in the back. Elam started
This footage by JoAnn Elam shows members of the Chicago city council during one of their meetings around 1973. As in another element from this collection titled [City Council 2], she films one speaking member after another from behind, as she was probably sitting in the back. Elam started working as a letter carrier for
This footage by JoAnn Elam shows members of the Chicago city council during one of their meetings around 1973. As in another element from this collection titled [City Council 1], she films one speaking member after another from behind, as she was probably sitting in the back. Elam started working as a letter carrier for
This footage by JoAnn Elam from 1973 first shows the roofs of apartment buildings and houses, trees, and tires from what appears to be a moving car driving on the streets of Chicago. As many elements in this collection demonstrate, Elam often used car rides as opportunities to film the city and to experiment with
This 8mm film by JoAnn Elam was shot in Chicago around 1984. It features an unidentified woman, perhaps a neighbor, and (very briefly) Chuck Kleinhans, a film scholar who founded Jump Cut and a close friend of Elam’s to whom the title refers. Elam films Kleinhans outside a garage, walking on the street, and standing
This footage by JoAnn Elam is partly filmed from inside a car riding in the streets of Chicago. Elam captures the houses around, the statues of Fritz Reuter and of the bronze bison in Humboldt Park, to which the truncated title might refer, a basketball game, and a child playing on the street and smiling
As its title indicates, this footage was taken at Garfield Park Conservatory in the west side of Chicago, during the Christmas Flower Show of 1984. JoAnn Elam films from inside the greenhouse and she first seems more interested in the glass structure than in the plants and flowers on display. The image is dark and
This footage from 1984 shows JoAnn Elam’s neighborhood after a snowstorm, most likely in Chicago. Elam films the snowy alleys and houses first from outside and then from inside her house through the windows. The camera is eventually back outside on the street, where we see Elam toss keys to a bearded man (possibly her
This footage by JoAnn Elam was taken from a moving car on the highway near Chicago, where Elam lived for most of her life. Cars, lampposts, buildings, and the Chicago skyline in the distance come in and out of the frame, without the camera being able to control what it is filming. As in another