Ed Emshwiller Movies

A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

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

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

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

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and Anthony Bannon funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant.

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

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

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

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

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

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

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

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

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

A short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.

Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

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...

Dance Chromatic (1959), integrates film and painting. Dance Chromatic reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth...