Ed Emshwiller

Directing·Feb 16, 1925·Lansing, Michigan

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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.

Film	Credit
Birth of a Nation1997 · Actor	Actor
Hungers1987 · Director	Director
Home Movies 1971-811985 · Actor	Actor
Skin Matrix S1984 · Director	Director
Skin Matrix1984 · Director	Director
Sunstone1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Eclipse1979 · Director	Director
Dubs1978 · Director	Director
Sur Faces1977 · Director	Director
Lost, Lost, Lost1976 · Self	Self
Self-Trio1976 · Director	Director
NNew England Visions Past and Future1976 · Director	Director
Family Focus1976 · Himself, Director	Himself, Director
IInside Edges1975 · Director	Director
Solstice and Solyanka1975 · Actor	Actor
Crossings and Meetings1974 · Director	Director
Chrysalis1973 · Director	Director
PPositive Negative Electronic Faces1973 · Director	Director
Pilobolus and Joan1973 · Director	Director
IIdentities1973 · Director	Director
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”1973 · Actor	Actor
Painters Painting1973 · Actor	Actor
WWoe Oh Ho No1972 · Director	Director
Scape-Mates1972 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
CComputer Graphics #11972 · Director	Director
Thermogenesis1972 · Director	Director
Film with Three Dancers1971 · Director	Director
Choice Chance Woman Dance1971 · Director	Director
Branches1970 · Director	Director
Carol1970 · Director	Director
IImages1970 · Director	Director
Image, Flesh and Voice1969 · Director	Director
Project Apollo1968 · Director	Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · Self	Self
Fusion1967 · Director	Director
Galaxie1966 · Self	Self
Relativity1966 · Director	Director
IIn Three Zones1966 · Director	Director
Oysters Are in Season1966 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Art Scene USA1966 · Director	Director
George Dumpson's Place1965 · Director	Director
FFaces of America1965 · Director	Director
Scrambles1964 · Director	Director
Totem1963 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Hallelujah the Hills1963 · Gideon	Gideon
FFreedom March1963 · Director	Director
Thanatopsis1963 · Director	Director
Lifelines1960 · Director	Director