Ed Emshwiller Movies

The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

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

Featuring Bill Weidner and Connie Brady, BRANCHES was made in a filmmaking workshop at Cornell University during the summer of 1970. The film was...

A video piece 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...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and Anthony Bannon funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant.

The long version of the film titled in the short version "THERMOGENESIS"

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

A film by Ed Emshwiller that surveys, without narration, the vast human and material resources committed to the U.S. space program. Uses recurring...

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

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...

A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...

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,...

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