Ed Emshwiller Filmes

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the rape and murder of a black woman is framed and...

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

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 based on play by Wilford Leach

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...

Really gorgeous visuals from Emshwiller made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from his previous Sunstone.

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

This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...

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

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