Ed Emshwiller Movies

  • 1966
    Relativity

    Relativity

    Relativity

    5.51966HD

    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...

    Relativity
  • 1973
    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    71973HD

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

    Painters Painting
  • 1971
    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    6.91971HD

    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...

    Millhouse
  • 1979
    Sunstone

    Sunstone

    Sunstone

    71979HD

    Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

    Sunstone
  • 1976
    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    71976HD

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

    Family Focus
  • 1967
    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    7.3741967HD

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

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
  • 1979
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    71979HD

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

    Eclipse
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1972
    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    6.31972HD

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

    Scape-Mates
  • 1959
    Dance Chromatic

    Dance Chromatic

    Dance Chromatic

    81959HD

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

    Dance Chromatic
  • 1976
    Self-Trio

    Self-Trio

    Self-Trio

    01976HD

    Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

    Self-Trio
  • 1970
    Carol

    Carol

    Carol

    61970HD

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

    Carol
  • 1970
    Report

    Report

    Report

    01970HD

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

    Report
  • 1977
    Sur Faces

    Sur Faces

    Sur Faces

    101977HD

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

    Sur Faces
  • 1964
    Scrambles

    Scrambles

    Scrambles

    71964HD

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

    Scrambles
  • 1958
    Monsters

    Monsters

    Monsters

    01958HD

    The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

    Monsters
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.31968HD

    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,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1972
    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    Thermogenesis

    01972HD

    "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...

    Thermogenesis
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1958
    Big Vacation

    Big Vacation

    Big Vacation

    01958HD

    The third film by Ed Emshwiller

    Big Vacation