Ed Emshwiller Movies

Emshwiller introduces this work as a "tapestry of images and sounds suggestive of the hungers that human beings all share for food, love, sex, power,...

A filmic interpretation of a modern dance ballet by Alvin Nikolais. Earth, fire, water and primordial mysteries in a cine-dance.

A comedy short which pokes merry anarchistic fun at such quintessential American institutions as mom, baseball, and apple pie. It features an early...

Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.

In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized...

A combination of animated line drawings with live photography of a nude model. A play on the title (living lines, life model, procreation and hand...

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

A look at painting, sculpture and the dance in the United States today, as represented by works of many of its best-known artists - Andrew Wyeth,...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.

Shot during the 1968/69 school year at University of California Berkeley, Report was created as part of Norman Jacobson’s experimental...

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...

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

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

The third 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...

Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...

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

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