Ed Emshwiller Movies

A video piece 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...

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

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

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

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

Made in collaboration with Alvin Nikolais, featuring the Nikolais dance company. CHRYSALIS is the result of structuring a series of cinematic and...

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

The third 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,...

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

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

A video work by Ed Emshwiller

The Second film by Ed Emshwiller

A look at painting, sculpture and the dance in the United States today, as represented by works of many of its best-known artists - Andrew Wyeth,...

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