Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 16, 1925
Died
Jul 27, 1990
Place of Birth
Lansing, Michigan
Credits
65 titles
Ed Emshwiller
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Birth of a Nation
Self
Hungers
Director
Home Movies 1971-81
Skin Matrix S
Director
Skin Matrix
Director
The Lathe of Heaven
Special Effects
Sunstone
Director
Eclipse
Director
Dubs
Director
Sur Faces
Director
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
Self-Trio
Director
New England Visions Past and Future
Director
Family Focus
Himself
Inside Edges
Director
Solstice and Solyanka
Suite 212
Camera Operator
Crossings and Meetings
Director
Chrysalis
Director
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
Director
Identities
Director
Pilobolus and Joan
Director
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
Painters Painting
Woe Oh Ho No
Director
Scape-Mates
Director
Computer Graphics #1
Director
Thermogenesis
Director
Millhouse
Cinematography
Film with Three Dancers
Director
Choice Chance Woman Dance
Director
Branches
Director
Carol
Director
Report
Sound Recordist
Images
Director
Image, Flesh and Voice
Director
Jr. Star Trek
Cinematography
Project Apollo
Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Camera Operator
Fusion
Director
Galaxie
Self
Relativity
Director
In Three Zones
Director
Oysters Are in Season
Director of Photography
Art Scene USA
Director
George Dumpson's Place
Director
Film Magazine of the Arts
Cinematography
Faces of America
Director
Scrambles
Director