Ed Emshwiller Movies

Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from...

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...

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...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

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

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...

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

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

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

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."

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

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

The Second 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...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

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