Heather McAdams Movies

Scratched lines and shapes bloat around this footage of an unknown businessman, sometimes forming hats, clown noses, arrows, etc. He becomes a kind...

Heather McAdams documents her extensive postcard collection to the tune of Hank Snow's "I've Been Everywhere"

A profile of Chicago's greatest Presley impersonator, Jay Elvis

The zany and the funny facets of American popular culture.

The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called...

An experimental film by Heather McAdams

This film is a good example of 'wrong' picture/sound juxtapositions. Uncanny collisions and combinations of sound and picture make this film one of...

A portrait film about a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own club on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

A portrait of the filmmaker's father.

This film started out as a sort of music video to a wonderful old song by Pat Suzuki (also known as 'Miss Ponytail'). The song is called Black...

Based on a comic Heather McAdams created for the Chicago Reader, the short comedic film was made by Tom Palazzolo's 1990 film production class at the...

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this...

Experimental mash-up of circus and sideshow footage.

A teenage projectionist's fever dream.

Scratched lines and shapes float around this footage of a military spokesperson

Apocalyptic experimental film incorporating found footage, including from the 1962 educational film of the same name.

An early Super 8 film by Heather McAdams, made while she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This film is made out of found footage and stuff that I shot. It starts out like a real documentary and gets increasingly more absurd. Probably good...

“Made entirely from found footage and found sound deep in the midnight hours when most good law-abiding citizens are sawing logs, the film was...

An early experiment from Heather McAdams, mixed with audio from 'Tom Corbett's Space Patrol."