Ed Emshwiller
Directing
1925-02-16 · Lansing, Michigan
Born in 1925, Ed Emshwiller studied graphic design at the University of Michigan and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. By the late '60s Emshwiller was working as a science fiction illustrator, and had established his place in the American avant-garde cinema with such works as Relativity (1966) and Image, Flesh and Voice (1969). His early films featured collaborations with dancers and choreographers—a theme he carried over into his videoworks. As both an artist and a teacher, Emshwiller’s pioneering efforts to develop an alternative technological language in video were enormously influential. His early experiments with synthesizers and computers included the electronic rendering of three-dimensional space, the interplay of illusion and reality, and manipulations of time, movement, and scale that explore the relationship between "external reality and subjective feelings." Emshwiller was among the first artists-in-residence at the TV Lab at WNET, where he produced the groundbreaking Scape-mates (1972). Sunstone (1979) was made over a period of eight months at the New York Institute of Technology. Emshwiller passed away in 1990 and an extensive collection of his work is housed by Anthology Film Archives.
Filmography
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Movie
Hungers
1987 · Movie
Home Movies 1971-81
1985 · Movie
Skin Matrix S
1984 · Movie
Skin Matrix
1984 · Movie
The Lathe of Heaven
1980 · Movie
Sunstone
1979 · Movie
Eclipse
1979 · Movie
Dubs
1978 · Movie
Sur Faces
1977 · Movie
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Movie
Self-Trio
1976 · Movie
New England Visions Past and Future
1976 · Movie
Family Focus
1976 · Movie
Inside Edges
1975 · Movie
Solstice and Solyanka
1975 · Movie
Suite 212
1974 · Movie
Crossings and Meetings
1974 · Movie
Chrysalis
1973 · Movie
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
1973 · Movie
Pilobolus and Joan
1973 · Movie
Identities
1973 · Movie
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973 · Movie
Painters Painting
1973 · Movie
Woe Oh Ho No
1972 · Movie
Scape-Mates
1972 · Movie
Computer Graphics #1
1972 · Movie
Thermogenesis
1972 · Movie
Millhouse
1971 · Movie
Film with Three Dancers
1971 · Movie
Choice Chance Woman Dance
1971 · Movie
Branches
1970 · Movie
Carol
1970 · Movie
Report
1970 · Movie
Images
1970 · Movie
Image, Flesh and Voice
1969 · Movie
Jr. Star Trek
1969 · Movie
Project Apollo
1968 · Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Movie
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 · Movie
Fusion
1967 · Movie
Galaxie
1966 · Movie
Relativity
1966 · Movie
In Three Zones
1966 · Movie
Oysters Are in Season
1966 · Movie
Art Scene USA
1966 · Movie
George Dumpson's Place
1965 · Movie
Film Magazine of the Arts
1965 · Movie
Faces of America
1965 · Movie
Scrambles
1964 · Movie
Totem
1963 · Movie
Hallelujah the Hills
1963 · Movie
Freedom March
1963 · Movie
Thanatopsis
1963 · Movie
The Existentialist
1963 · Movie
The Streets of Greenwood
1962 · Movie
The American Way
1962 · Movie
Time of the Heathen
1962 · Movie
Lifelines
1960 · Movie
Dance Chromatic
1959 · Movie
Transformation
1959 · Movie
Big Vacation
1958 · Movie
Monsters
1958 · Movie
Paintings by Ed Emshwiller
1958 · Movie
The Thing from Back Issues
1956 · Movie