- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Lansing, Michigan
- Died
- July 27, 1990
Ed Emshwiller
Born in 1925, Ed Emshwiller studied graphic design at the University of Michigan and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. By the late '60s Emshwiller was working as a science fiction illustrator, and had established his place in the American avant-garde cinema with such works as Relativity (1966) and Image, Flesh and Voice (1969). His early films featured collaborations with dancers and choreographers—a theme he carried over into his videoworks. As both an artist and a teacher, Emshwiller’s pioneering efforts to develop an alternative technological language in video were enormously influential. His early experiments with synthesizers and computers included the electronic rendering of three-dimensional space, the interplay of illusion and reality, and manipulations of time, movement, and scale that explore the relationship between "external reality and subjective feelings." Emshwiller was am…
Filmography
movieBirth of a Nation
1997
movieHungers
1987 · Director
movieHome Movies 1971-81
1985
movieSkin Matrix S
1984 · Director
movieSkin Matrix
1984 · Director
movieThe Lathe of Heaven
1980 · Special Effects
movieSunstone
1979 · Director, Writer
movieEclipse
1979 · Director
movieDubs
1978 · Director
movieSur Faces
1977 · Director
movieLost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Self
New England Visions Past and Future
movieNew England Visions Past and Future
1976 · Director
movieSelf-Trio
1976 · Director
movieFamily Focus
1976 · Himself, Director, Cinematography, Editor
Inside Edges
movieInside Edges
1975 · Director
movieSolstice and Solyanka
1975
movieSuite 212
1974 · Camera Operator
movieCrossings and Meetings
1974 · Director
movieChrysalis
1973 · Director, Cinematography, Sound
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
moviePositive Negative Electronic Faces
1973 · Director
moviePilobolus and Joan
1973 · Director
Identities
movieIdentities
1973 · Director
movieNotes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
moviePainters Painting
1973 · , Cinematography
Woe Oh Ho No
movieWoe Oh Ho No
1972 · Director
movieScape-Mates
1972 · Director, Writer
Computer Graphics #1
movieComputer Graphics #1
1972 · Director
movieThermogenesis
1972 · Director
movieMillhouse
1971 · Cinematography
movieFilm with Three Dancers
1971 · Director
movieChoice Chance Woman Dance
1971 · Director
movieBranches
1970 · Director
movieCarol
1970 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
movieReport
1970 · Sound Recordist, Cinematography
Images
movieImages
1970 · Director
movieImage, Flesh and Voice
1969 · Director
Jr. Star Trek
movieJr. Star Trek
1969 · Cinematography
movieProject Apollo
1968 · Director
movieDiaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
movieBob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 · Camera Operator
movieFusion
1967 · Director
movieGalaxie
1966 · Self
movieRelativity
1966 · Director
In Three Zones
movieIn Three Zones
1966 · Director
movieOysters Are in Season
1966 · Director of Photography
movieArt Scene USA
1966 · Director
movieGeorge Dumpson's Place
1965 · Director
movieFilm Magazine of the Arts
1965 · Cinematography
Faces of America
movieFaces of America
1965 · Director
movieScrambles
1964 · Director
movieTotem
1963 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
movieHallelujah the Hills
1963 · Gideon, Cinematography
Freedom March
movieFreedom March
1963 · Director
movieThanatopsis
1963 · Director
The Existentialist
movieThe Existentialist
1963 · Cinematography
movieThe Streets of Greenwood
1962 · Cinematography
movieThe American Way
1962 · Camera Operator
movieTime of the Heathen
1962 · Cinematography, Editor, Art Direction
movieLifelines
1960 · Director
movieDance Chromatic
1959 · Director
movieTransformation
1959 · Director
Big Vacation
movieBig Vacation
1958 · Director
Monsters
movieMonsters
1958 · Director
moviePaintings by Ed Emshwiller
1958 · Director
The Thing from Back Issues
movieThe Thing from Back Issues
1956 · Director