Ed Emshwiller
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.
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Movies (65)
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Hungers
1987 · Director
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Skin Matrix S
1984 · Director
Skin Matrix
1984 · Director
The Lathe of Heaven
1980 · Special Effects
Sunstone
1979 · Director, Writer
Eclipse
1979 · Director
Dubs
1978 · Director
Sur Faces
1977 · Director
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Self
New England Visions Past and Future
1976 · Director
Self-Trio
1976 · Director
Family Focus
1976 · Himself, Director, Cinematography, Editor
Inside Edges
1975 · Director
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Suite 212
1974 · Camera Operator
Crossings and Meetings
1974 · Director
Chrysalis
1973 · Director, Cinematography, Sound
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
1973 · Director
Pilobolus and Joan
1973 · Director
Identities
1973 · Director
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Painters Painting
1973 · Cinematography
Woe Oh Ho No
1972 · Director
Scape-Mates
1972 · Director, Writer
Computer Graphics #1
1972 · Director
Thermogenesis
1972 · Director
Millhouse
1971 · Cinematography
Film with Three Dancers
1971 · Director
Choice Chance Woman Dance
1971 · Director
Branches
1970 · Director
Carol
1970 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Report
1970 · Sound Recordist, Cinematography
Images
1970 · Director
Image, Flesh and Voice
1969 · Director
Jr. Star Trek
1969 · Cinematography
Project Apollo
1968 · Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 · Camera Operator
Fusion
1967 · Director
Galaxie
1966 · Self
Relativity
1966 · Director
In Three Zones
1966 · Director
Oysters Are in Season
1966 · Director of Photography
Art Scene USA
1966 · Director
George Dumpson's Place
1965 · Director
Film Magazine of the Arts
1965 · Cinematography
Faces of America
1965 · Director
Scrambles
1964 · Director
Totem
1963 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Hallelujah the Hills
1963 · Gideon, Cinematography
Freedom March
1963 · Director
Thanatopsis
1963 · Director
The Existentialist
1963 · Cinematography
The Streets of Greenwood
1962 · Cinematography
The American Way
1962 · Camera Operator
Time of the Heathen
1962 · Cinematography, Editor, Art Direction
Lifelines
1960 · Director
Dance Chromatic
1959 · Director
Transformation
1959 · Director
Big Vacation
1958 · Director
Monsters
1958 · Director
Paintings by Ed Emshwiller
1958 · Director
The Thing from Back Issues
1956 · Director
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