Ed Emshwiller

Known for DirectingBorn 1925-02-16Died 1990-07-27Lansing, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dubs

Sur Faces

Galaxie

Totem

Film Magazine of the Arts

Hungers

Time of the Heathen

The Streets of Greenwood

Dance Chromatic

Paintings by Ed Emshwiller

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

Birth of a Nation

Lost, Lost, Lost

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Sunstone

Eclipse

Family Focus

Painters Painting

Branches

Project Apollo

Scrambles

The Existentialist

Transformation

Millhouse

The Lathe of Heaven

Image, Flesh and Voice

Thanatopsis

Scape-Mates

Hallelujah the Hills

George Dumpson's Place

Carol

Lifelines

Film with Three Dancers

Relativity

The American Way

Jr. Star Trek

Home Movies 1971-81

Skin Matrix S

Skin Matrix

Self-Trio

New England Visions Past and Future

Solstice and Solyanka

Inside Edges

Suite 212

Crossings and Meetings

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

Pilobolus and Joan

Chrysalis