Ed Emshwiller Movies

A combination of animated line drawings with live photography of a nude model. A play on the title (living lines, life model, procreation and hand...

The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.

The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...

A film by Ed Emshwiller that surveys, without narration, the vast human and material resources committed to the U.S. space program. Uses recurring...

Really gorgeous visuals from Emshwiller made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from his previous Sunstone.

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of...

Emshwiller introduces this work as a "tapestry of images and sounds suggestive of the hungers that human beings all share for food, love, sex, power,...

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...

Made in collaboration with Alvin Nikolais, featuring the Nikolais dance company. CHRYSALIS is the result of structuring a series of cinematic and...

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

"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...

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

This biker documentary was selected for screening at the 1964 Flaherty Film Seminar. Emshwiller described it as "a roaring picture of motorcyclists...

A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as...

Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.