Ed Emshwiller Movies
- 1962

The Streets of Greenwood
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THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...
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- 1979

Eclipse
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Really gorgeous visuals from Emshwiller made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from his previous Sunstone.
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- 1974

Suite 212
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Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...
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- 1958

Monsters
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The Second film by Ed Emshwiller
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- 1970

Branches
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Featuring Bill Weidner and Connie Brady, BRANCHES was made in a filmmaking workshop at Cornell University during the summer of 1970. The film was...
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- 1973

Identities
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A film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.
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- 1984

Skin Matrix
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Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of...
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- 1963

Thanatopsis
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Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.
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- 1965

Film Magazine of the Arts
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"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...
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- 1987

Hungers
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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,...
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- 1971

Choice Chance Woman Dance
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A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...
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- 1959

Transformation
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The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...
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- 1970

Carol
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Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.
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- 1976

Family Focus
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Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...
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- 1965

George Dumpson's Place
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Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...
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- 1966

Oysters Are in Season
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Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....
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- 1960

Lifelines
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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...
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- 1967

Fusion
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A kaleidoscopic collage of colours and dehumanised modern dancers, making subtle use of double exposure and electronic music. Shapes move and grow to...
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- 1976

New England Visions Past and Future
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A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson
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- 1974

Crossings and Meetings
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A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...
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