Ed Emshwiller Movies

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

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

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 film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.

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

The long version of the film titled in the short version "THERMOGENESIS"

A video piece by Ed Emshwiller

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

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

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

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

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

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

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

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

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

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