8.0
8.0
Paintings by Ed Emshwiller
1958
Director
Ed Emshwiller
Directing
Born:February 16, 1925
Died:July 27, 1990(aged 65)
Birthplace:Lansing, Michigan
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CommunityBiography
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 among the first artists-in-residence at the TV Lab at WNET, where he produced the groundbreaking Scape-mates (1972). Sunstone (1979) was made over a period of eight months at the New York Institute of Technology. Emshwiller passed away in 1990 and an extensive collection of his work is housed by Anthology Film Archives.
Filmography (51 movies)
7.4
7.4
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
7.0
7.0
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
7.0
7.0
Project Apollo
1968
Director
6.8
6.8
Sunstone
1979
Director
6.5
6.5
Painters Painting
1973
6.2
6.2
Thanatopsis
1963
Director
6.1
6.1
Hallelujah the Hills
1963
as Gideon
6.0
6.0
Image, Flesh and Voice
1969
Director
6.0
6.0
George Dumpson's Place
1965
Director
6.0
6.0
Scape-Mates
1972
Writer
5.9
5.9
Carol
1970
Director
5.1
5.1
Relativity
1966
Director
5.0
5.0
Lifelines
1960
Director
4.3
4.3
Film with Three Dancers
1971
Director
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Galaxie
1966
as Self
Family Focus
1976
Director
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Choice Chance Woman Dance
1971
Director
Skin Matrix
1984
Director
Pilobolus and Joan
1973
Director
Sur Faces
1977
Director
Dubs
1978
Director
Skin Matrix S
1984
Director
Hungers
1987
Director
Monsters
1958
Director
Big Vacation
1958
Director
Faces of America
1965
Director
In Three Zones
1966
Director
Woe Oh Ho No
1972
Director
Images
1970
Director
Computer Graphics #1
1972
Director
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
1973
Director
Inside Edges
1975
Director
New England Visions Past and Future
1976
Director
Self-Trio
1976
Director
Scrambles
1964
Director
The Thing from Back Issues
1956
Director
Identities
1973
Director
Freedom March
1963
Director
Dance Chromatic
1959
Director
Eclipse
1979
Director
Transformation
1959
Director
Totem
1963
Director
Crossings and Meetings
1974
Director
Fusion
1967
Director
Art Scene USA
1966
Director
Branches
1970
Director
Chrysalis
1973
Director
Thermogenesis
1972
Director
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