Ed Emshwiller Movies

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 STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

Shot during the 1968/69 school year at University of California Berkeley, Report was created as part of Norman Jacobson’s experimental...

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...

In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying...

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

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

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

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....

The third film 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...

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

A short documentary by Ed Emshwiller of the March on Washington.

Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

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

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,...