Ed Emshwiller Movies

"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...

Emile de Antonio's film decimates Richard Nixon and exposes him as a paranoid, power mad lunatic... de Antonio compiles (via video and film) what...

Integrating film and painting, "Dance Chromatic" reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth of form and...

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

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

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 short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.

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,...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

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

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

"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...

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

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

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

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...

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