Ed Emshwiller Movies

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

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

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

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...

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that...

A comedy short which pokes merry anarchistic fun at such quintessential American institutions as mom, baseball, and apple pie. It features an early...

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of...

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

A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and William Irwin Thompson

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

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

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...

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