Heather McAdams Movies

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

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...

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

Experimental mash-up of circus and sideshow footage.

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 scratch film set to music by J. J. Cale.

A caustic send-up of adolescent anxiety, as seen through a barrage of clips from sex ed and social hygiene films of the 1950s and '60s.

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

A documentary profile of Lester Brodzik and his alter ego Lestushka

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...

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."

An experimental film by Heather McAdams

The zany and the funny facets of American popular culture.

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.

A teenage projectionist's fever dream.

"Inspired by a record to help women with beauty problems. I tried dubbing the voice of the man on the record into the mouth of some fat dude in a...