Silent Movies

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Sergei, an aspiring musician, accidentally meets a deaf-mute girl, Natasha, and falls in love with her. He has to change a lot to prepare himself for...

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

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

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

A silent student short film with lots of drama. Courtesy of Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal Qc.

A young man tries to win the heart of the woman he likes, but not all goes to plan in this homage to the films of Charlie Chaplin.

Abstract short.

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

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

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

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

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

Introducing the Ace Cinematic Universe

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

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...