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‘Death Sounds a Quiet Gong’ was originally screened at Village Works (12 St. Marks Place, New York City, NY) on October 24, 2025. The poem was first published in the inaugural release of biannual literary journal the Tough Poets Review.

An investigation about human intervention in nature, from the subjective point of view of the camera, the environment and its transformation are observed.

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his birth and death anniversaries. And alongside how his family spends a few days at the village keeping his traditions alive.

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

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.

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.

USPS workers go bowling.

Chicago streets.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Farm work and nature.

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.

Digging in the woods.

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.