Silent Movies

Digging in the woods.

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Abstract short.

Cleaning supplies and flames.

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

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

A metallic cacophony resounds as Eric hunts for, and labours through, abandoned scrap. The sun beats down as his pick-up truck rumbles through the...

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

A gentleman of France

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

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

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...