Silent Movies

Join us down deep within the basement of ToonMan as a not so colorful cast of characters join together only once in a half moon to play poker for one...

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

A man wakes up in a forest with a mysterious mask stuck to his face and a note with a girl's face depicted.

A short film following the struggles of balancing university life and trying to find a job after recently losing their previous job

Chicago streets.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

What happens to art when it loses its artist?

Death awaits the souls of those who perished and interviews them before they move on.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

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

Silent cartoon.

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

Digging in the woods.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film....

Two women find companionship in emptiness.