Ed Emshwiller Movies

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

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

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...

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

"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...

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

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

A video piece by Ed Emshwiller

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

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

This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

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

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