Ed Emshwiller Movies
- 1966

Relativity
Relativity5.51966HD
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...
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- 1973

Painters Painting
Painters Painting71973HD
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from...
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- 1971

Millhouse
Millhouse6.91971HD
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...
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- 1979

Sunstone
Sunstone71979HD
Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.
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- 1976

Family Focus
Family Focus71976HD
Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...
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- 1967

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back7.3741967HD
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...
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- 1979

Eclipse
Eclipse71979HD
Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."
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- 1985

Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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- 1972

Scape-Mates
Scape-Mates6.31972HD
In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized...
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- 1959

Dance Chromatic
Dance Chromatic81959HD
Integrating film and painting, "Dance Chromatic" reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth of form and...
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- 1976

Self-Trio
Self-Trio01976HD
Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.
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- 1970

Carol
Carol61970HD
Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.
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- 1970

Report
Report01970HD
Shot during the 1968/69 school year at University of California Berkeley, Report was created as part of Norman Jacobson’s experimental...
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- 1977

Sur Faces
Sur Faces101977HD
Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as...
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- 1964

Scrambles
Scrambles71964HD
This biker documentary was selected for screening at the 1964 Flaherty Film Seminar. Emshwiller described it as "a roaring picture of motorcyclists...
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- 1958

Monsters
Monsters01958HD
The Second film by Ed Emshwiller
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- 1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.31968HD
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,...
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- 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...
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- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation71997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1958

Big Vacation
Big Vacation01958HD
The third film by Ed Emshwiller
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