Ed Emshwiller Movies

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

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

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

A filmic interpretation of a modern dance ballet by Alvin Nikolais. Earth, fire, water and primordial mysteries in a cine-dance.

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

A film made by Ed Emshwiller and Wantagh, New York high school students.

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

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

The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.

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

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

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

A film by Ed Emshwiller that surveys, without narration, the vast human and material resources committed to the U.S. space program. Uses recurring...

The third film by Ed Emshwiller

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

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,...

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

Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol 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...