Ed Emshwiller Movies

  • 1970
    Carol

    Carol

    Carol

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    Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

    Carol
  • 1965
    George Dumpson's Place

    George Dumpson's Place

    George Dumpson's Place

    61965HD

    Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...

    George Dumpson's Place
  • 1970
    Report

    Report

    Report

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

    Report
  • 1960
    Lifelines

    Lifelines

    Lifelines

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    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...

    Lifelines
  • 1966
    Relativity

    Relativity

    Relativity

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    Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that...

    Relativity
  • 1984
    Skin Matrix S

    Skin Matrix S

    Skin Matrix S

    01984HD

    Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.

    Skin Matrix S
  • 1969
    Image, Flesh and Voice

    Image, Flesh and Voice

    Image, Flesh and Voice

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

    Image, Flesh and Voice
  • 1973
    Pilobolus and Joan

    Pilobolus and Joan

    Pilobolus and Joan

    01973HD

    Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story...

    Pilobolus and Joan
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    01974HD

    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

    Suite 212
  • 1972
    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    01972HD

    "A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the...

    Thermogenesis
  • 1956
    The Thing from Back Issues

    The Thing from Back Issues

    The Thing from Back Issues

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    A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.

    The Thing from Back Issues
  • 1972
    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    51972HD

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

    Scape-Mates
  • 1969
    Jr. Star Trek

    Jr. Star Trek

    Jr. Star Trek

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

    Jr. Star Trek
  • 1987
    Hungers

    Hungers

    Hungers

    01987HD

    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,...

    Hungers
  • 1964
    Scrambles

    Scrambles

    Scrambles

    01964HD

    This biker documentary was selected for screening at the 1964 Flaherty Film Seminar. Emshwiller described it as "a roaring picture of motorcyclists...

    Scrambles
  • 1973
    Identities

    Identities

    Identities

    01973HD

    A film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.

    Identities
  • 1976
    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    01976HD

    Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...

    Family Focus
  • 1958
    Monsters

    Monsters

    Monsters

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    The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

    Monsters
  • 1963
    Freedom March

    Freedom March

    Freedom March

    01963HD

    A short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.

    Freedom March
  • 1966
    In Three Zones

    In Three Zones

    In Three Zones

    01966HD

    A film based on play by Wilford Leach

    In Three Zones