Heather McAdams Movies

Scratched lines and shapes bloat around this footage of an unknown businessman, sometimes forming hats, clown noses, arrows, etc. He becomes a kind...

Scratched lines and shapes float around this footage of a military spokesperson

A teenage projectionist's fever dream.

Based on a comic Heather McAdams created for the Chicago Reader, the short comedic film was made by Tom Palazzolo's 1990 film production class at the...

This film started out as a sort of music video to a wonderful old song by Pat Suzuki (also known as 'Miss Ponytail'). The song is called Black...

This film is a good example of 'wrong' picture/sound juxtapositions. Uncanny collisions and combinations of sound and picture make this film one of...

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this...

An experimental film by Heather McAdams

A profile of Chicago's greatest Presley impersonator, Jay Elvis

A documentary profile of Lester Brodzik and his alter ego Lestushka

A scratch film set to music by J. J. Cale.

An early experiment from Heather McAdams, mixed with audio from 'Tom Corbett's Space Patrol."

"Inspired by a record to help women with beauty problems. I tried dubbing the voice of the man on the record into the mouth of some fat dude in a...

The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called...

Apocalyptic experimental film incorporating found footage, including from the 1962 educational film of the same name.

A portrait of the filmmaker's father.

“Made entirely from found footage and found sound deep in the midnight hours when most good law-abiding citizens are sawing logs, the film was...

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A caustic send-up of adolescent anxiety, as seen through a barrage of clips from sex ed and social hygiene films of the 1950s and '60s.

A portrait film about a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own club on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.