Silent Movies

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Digging in the woods.

An exercise in no-budget filmmaking made over a two day span.

A fight occurs between two swordsmen, with grisly results.

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

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

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.

A young man races to deliver a letter in time for his mother's birthday.

An outdoor gathering.

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

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

After getting involved in a car accident, a depressed, isolated, and chronically online girl tries to cut back her internet addiction and reconnect...

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...

Silent cartoon.

A teenager turns to filming their family after the loss of their mother.

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