Ed Emshwiller Movies

Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story...

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

The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...

A kaleidoscopic collage of colours and dehumanised modern dancers, making subtle use of double exposure and electronic music. Shapes move and grow to...

A delightful short film shot in reverse in which the main protagonist enjoys a day on the town.

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

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

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

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

"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...

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

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

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

Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

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

A video piece by Ed Emshwiller