Ed Emshwiller Movies

  • 1967
    Dont Look Back

    Dont Look Back

    Dont Look Back

    7.3721967HD

    In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...

    Dont Look Back
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.21968HD

    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1980
    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    6.71980HD

    George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

    The Lathe of Heaven
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    71976HD

    Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1962
    The American Way

    The American Way

    The American Way

    5.11962HD

    A comedy short which pokes merry anarchistic fun at such quintessential American institutions as mom, baseball, and apple pie. It features an early...

    The American Way
  • 1971
    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    6.61971HD

    Emile de Antonio's film decimates Richard Nixon and exposes him as a paranoid, power mad lunatic... de Antonio compiles (via video and film) what...

    Millhouse
  • 1966
    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    01966HD

    In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

    Galaxie
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    01974HD

    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

    Suite 212
  • 1963
    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    6.11963HD

    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

    Hallelujah the Hills
  • 1962
    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    71962HD

    In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the rape and murder of a black woman is framed and...

    Time of the Heathen
  • 1966
    Relativity

    Relativity

    Relativity

    5.11966HD

    Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that...

    Relativity
  • 1962
    The Streets of Greenwood

    The Streets of Greenwood

    The Streets of Greenwood

    01962HD

    THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...

    The Streets of Greenwood
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1973
    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    6.51973HD

    Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from...

    Painters Painting
  • 1965
    Film Magazine of the Arts

    Film Magazine of the Arts

    Film Magazine of the Arts

    01965HD

    "In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

    Film Magazine of the Arts
  • 1971
    Film with Three Dancers

    Film with Three Dancers

    Film with Three Dancers

    4.31971HD

    In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying...

    Film with Three Dancers
  • 1972
    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    01972HD

    "A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the...

    Thermogenesis
  • 1979
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    01979HD

    Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

    Eclipse
  • 1973
    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    01973HD

    During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”