Prairie Journal, uncut
Prairie Journal, uncut. Raw footage.
Tag Archives: Nature
3 Goats and a Gruff
3 Goats and a Gruff” is presumed to be Elam’s first finished film, made while she lived in Yellow Springs, OH, in the late 1960s. In this fable, a “gruff” living in the woods threatens to shoot three “goats” passing, one by one, through a covered bridge. The first, a hippie flower woman, implores the
Windchimes, Window, Tree
Footage of trees swaying in the sunlight, as seen from a window. A windchime in silhouette periodically obscures the trees.
Country Mile (Original)
Experimental filmmaker JoAnn Elam guides (or limits) the viewer’s eyes down a rural, wooded path.
Monterey ’80
“Monterey ’80” documents a visit in 1980 by JoAnn Elam and her husband Joe Hendrix to the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by Elam’s friend Bonner McAllester and her husband Joe Baker. Elam and McAllester were close friends since their time at Antioch College together, and this film is one of many
Garden 85
One of the longest of the garden films in the JoAnn Elam Collection, “Garden 85″ appears to document the entirety of the 1985 growing season of Elam’s backyard garden in Logan Square, Chicago. From the beginning, Elam is shown preparing the land and planting the crops, with some of the earliest footage directly related to
Garden 84
Similar to other garden films in the JoAnn Elam Collection, “Garden 84” features Elam and, briefly, her second husband Joe Hendrix, at work in Elam’s Logan Square garden. Occasionally utilizing experimental techniques like fast-motion or rapid editing, the film shows different stages of gardening, from preparing and planting plots of land to reaping the harvest
Ice Lakes – Garden 1 ’84
Ice Lakes – Garden 1 ’84” begins with footage of ice clinging to docks along Lake Michigan on the north side of Chicago, the cityscape visible in the background. An unidentified man walks along the shore. Approximately halfway through its runtime, the film switches to show JoAnn Elam planting seeds in her garden in the
84 Garden 2
84 Garden 2″ documents JoAnn Elam working in the garden of her Logan Square residence in Chicago. Based on her consistent outfit, the film appears to have been shot during a single day at work and primarily features Elam tending to young sprouts previously planted in the plots of land. The relationship of the film