Ed Emshwiller Movies
- 1958

Big Vacation
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The third film by Ed Emshwiller
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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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- 1966

Art Scene USA
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A look at painting, sculpture and the dance in the United States today, as represented by works of many of its best-known artists - Andrew Wyeth,...
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- 1972

Thermogenesis
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"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...
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- 1958

Paintings by Ed Emshwiller
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The first film by Ed Emswhiller
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- 1984

Skin Matrix S
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Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.
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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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- 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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- 1976

Self-Trio
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Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.
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- 1978

Dubs
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Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...
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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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- 1973

Identities
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A film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.
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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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- 1963

Freedom March
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A short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.
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- 1973

Pilobolus and Joan
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Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story...
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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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- 1965

Faces of America
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An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity
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- 1968

Project Apollo
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A film by Ed Emshwiller that surveys, without narration, the vast human and material resources committed to the U.S. space program. Uses recurring...
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- 1958

Monsters
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The Second film by Ed Emshwiller
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- 1964

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