Biography and filmography

Van McElwee

Van McElwee’s body of media art includes over one hundred single channel video works, installations and web projects. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, The National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund (seven-time recipient), a Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a travel grant from the Government of India. McElwee’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide and is represented in The Kitchen Video Collection in New York and by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, Heure Exquise! in France, UK and the Inter Media Art Institute in Germany, and LUX in the UK.

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Movies (71)

Exotic Vector

Exotic Vector

2024 · Director

Cylinder Seal

Cylinder Seal

2024 · Director

Incarnation

Incarnation

2023 · Director

Score in Variation

Score in Variation

2023 · Director

Atlas of the Last World

Atlas of the Last World

2021 · Director

Ancestor House

Ancestor House

2021 · Director

World Skin

World Skin

2021 · Director

Zig Zag

Zig Zag

2021 · Director

The Map is the Territory

The Map is the Territory

2019 · Director

Unnatural Selection

Unnatural Selection

2019 · Director

Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane

Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane

2018 · Director, Animation, Editor, Sound

Mercado

Mercado

2017 · Director

Archaic Rooms

Archaic Rooms

2016 · Director

Wanderung

Wanderung

2016 · Director

Solutions to an Unknown Problem

Solutions to an Unknown Problem

2016 · Director

Outpost

Outpost

2016 · Director

Soft City

Soft City

2015 · Director

Objects in a Landscape

Objects in a Landscape

2015 · Director

Mexican Dream

Mexican Dream

2015 · Director

Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere

Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere

2015 · Director

Travel Dream

Travel Dream

2013 · Director

Dream Travel

Dream Travel

2013 · Director

Original Self

Original Self

2013 · Director

Arcades

Arcades

2012 · Director

Color Vector

Color Vector

2012 · Director

And/Or

And/Or

2011 · Director

Supernatural

Supernatural

2011 · Director

Varifold

Varifold

2010 · Director

Red and Blue Armies in a Forest

Red and Blue Armies in a Forest

2010 · Director

Half-Real

Half-Real

2010 · Director

Y-Space

Y-Space

2010 · Director

Blue Snowballs

Blue Snowballs

2010 · Director

Plex

Plex

2010 · Director, Cinematography, Music

Dream Alleys

Dream Alleys

2010 · Director

Meandering Modules

Meandering Modules

2010 · Director

Cloud Catcher

Cloud Catcher

2010 · Director

Liquid Crystal

Liquid Crystal

2009 · Director

Navigators

Navigators

2009 · Director

The Capitol of the Multiverse

The Capitol of the Multiverse

2009 · Director

Aperspectival House Variation

Aperspectival House Variation

2008 · Director

Alternity

Alternity

2008 · Director

Hyperplasm

Hyperplasm

2007 · Director

Aperspectival House

Aperspectival House

2007 · Director

Diagonal Drift

Diagonal Drift

2006 · Director

Vat

Vat

2005 · Director

Flag and Its Shadow

Flag and Its Shadow

2004 · Director

Natureland

Natureland

2003 · Director

Stupaform

Stupaform

2002 · Director

Waveform Modulation

Waveform Modulation

2001 · Director

Heliogos

Heliogos

2001 · Director

Procession

Procession

2000 · Director

Confluence

Confluence

1999 · Director

Souvenir

Souvenir

1999 · Director

Fourth Axis

Fourth Axis

1999 · Director

Luxor

Luxor

1998 · Director

Radio Island

Radio Island

1997 · Director

Transfinite Loops

Transfinite Loops

1996 · Director

Folded Follies

Folded Follies

1995 · Director

Space Splice

Space Splice

1994 · Director

Bindu

Bindu

1993 · Director

Fragments of India

Fragments of India

1993 · Director

Refraction

Refraction

1990 · Director

Distance

Distance

1990 · Director

Space Time Loops : Cityscape

Space Time Loops : Cityscape

1988 · Director, Sound

Inside

Inside

1986 · Director, Sound

Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells

Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells

1981 · Director

Mobius Film Loop Propellers

Mobius Film Loop Propellers

1980 · Director

Double Flame

Double Flame

1979 · Director

Split/Flow

Split/Flow

1979 · Director

Dropout Window

Dropout Window

1979 · Director

Video Feedback, ARP Drone

Video Feedback, ARP Drone

1976 · Director

TV shows (0)

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