Ed Emshwiller Movies

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,...

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

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

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

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

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...

A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.

The long version of the film titled in the short version "THERMOGENESIS"

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and Anthony Bannon funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant.

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

"In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

A video film by Ed Emshwiller