Ed Emshwiller Movies
- 1960
Lifelines
Lifelines51960HD
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...
- 1965
George Dumpson's Place
George Dumpson's Place61965HD
Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...
- 1970
Carol
Carol5.71970HD
Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.
- 1966
Relativity
Relativity4.71966HD
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...
- 1966
Oysters Are in Season
Oysters Are in Season01966HD
Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....
- 1973
Pilobolus and Joan
Pilobolus and Joan01973HD
Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story...
- 1974
Suite 212
Suite 21201974HD
Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...
- 1984
Skin Matrix S
Skin Matrix S01984HD
Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.
- 1956
The Thing from Back Issues
The Thing from Back Issues01956HD
A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.
- 1969
Image, Flesh and Voice
Image, Flesh and Voice61969HD
This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...
- 1969
Jr. Star Trek
Jr. Star Trek11969HD
The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.
- 1972
Scape-Mates
Scape-Mates51972HD
In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized...
- 1976
Family Focus
Family Focus01976HD
Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...
- 1972
Thermogenesis
Thermogenesis01972HD
"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...
- 1987
Hungers
Hungers01987HD
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,...
- 1964
Scrambles
Scrambles01964HD
This biker documentary was selected for screening at the 1964 Flaherty Film Seminar. Emshwiller described it as "a roaring picture of motorcyclists...
- 1973
Identities
Identities01973HD
A film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.
- 1958
Monsters
Monsters01958HD
The Second film by Ed Emshwiller
- 1959
Transformation
Transformation01959HD
The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...
- 1963
Freedom March
Freedom March01963HD
A short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.