Ed Emshwiller Movies

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

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

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,...

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

Really gorgeous visuals from Emshwiller made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from his previous Sunstone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A video piece by Ed Emshwiller

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

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,...

Dance Chromatic (1959), integrates film and painting. Dance Chromatic reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 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 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