Silent Movies

A jar of Cheez Whiz careens wildly through a Treasure Island Foods at 3460 N. Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. Cheez Whiz was Norm Bruns' first film. It...

A lone wanderer treks the solitary landscape of devoid suburbia, and something is missing... who is he? Where does he come from?

A boy explains the various steps to making a bowl of cereal in a hilarious Charlie Chaplin-inspired scatter.

A fight occurs between two swordsmen, with grisly results.

Two students find a magical book while studying and accidentally use it to turn their teacher into a fork.

Bete lives happily with her mother and her 50 cats, but a visit from a distant cousin is bound to reveal dark secrets...

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street...

Documentary that details the daily habits of beavers and their interaction with the ecosystem at large. Filmed mostly in Digby County, Nova Scotia.

USPS workers go bowling.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

An outdoor gathering.

Two pumpkins.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.