Soap + Fire

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

The movie is one of the foundational Greek arthouse films, by the filmaker Kostas Sfikas

Two girls spend the evening together. You'll never believe what happens next!

Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

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

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence of close-ups, Elam coyly records portions of several individuals practicing tai chi, primarily focusing on the practitioners’ extremities as they float about. Distinct from its affiliates, “Tai Chi II” finds the action taking place outside.

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

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Two pumpkins.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

Abstract short.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

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

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

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

Digging in the woods.