Ed Emshwiller Movies

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

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 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...

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

Made in collaboration with Alvin Nikolais, featuring the Nikolais dance company. CHRYSALIS is the result of structuring a series of cinematic and...

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

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

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

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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,...

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

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....