Ed Emshwiller Movies

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

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.

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

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

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.

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

A video piece 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...

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

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

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

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

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

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"

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity