Movies: Silent

JoAnn Elam plants collards....

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single frame shots create a storm of pictures....

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war....

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls. He shows his invention to the Toy King and his lovely daughter, and Ruby is overcome by the fumes an...

A man mourns a loss and confronts a deadly foe....

A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the ground, first clothed, then unclothed. As he caresses her back. he puts X’s along her spine. Later, wh...

A man accidentally cures his colorblindness, and he now must consider if he wants his whole worldview changed as well....

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city....

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old man, putting her in questions about the world she lives in....

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it....

FRED'S FICTITIOUS FOUNDLING is part of a series of comedies produced and directed by Josh Binney and were made for the Florida Film Corporation at the Klutho Studios in Jacksonville....

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea...

A passionate mime practices her daily rituals and performs for people, as well as being reminded of her insecurities....

Two women find companionship in emptiness....

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans....

Elam turns in place while filming nature....

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink....

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene....

Contrasting environments, in and outside....

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes up, they disappear again....