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Ed Emshwiller

Ed Emshwiller

Actor, Director, Cinematographer

Born February 16, 1925 in Lansing, Michigan

Died July 27, 1990

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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.

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Filmography

Actor

10

Type

Year

L.A. Screening Workshop Video1988Self

Family Focus Poster

Family Focus Feature Film1976Ed

Lost, Lost, Lost Poster

Lost, Lost, Lost Documentary1976Self

Painters Painting Poster

Painters Painting Documentary1972Cameraman

Screening Room Poster

Screening Room TV Series1972Self

Diaries Notes and Sketches Poster

Diaries Notes and Sketches Documentary1969Self

NET Festival TV Series1967Self

Galaxie Feature Film1966Self

Horizon TV Series1964Self

Hallelujah the Hills Poster

Hallelujah the Hills Feature Film1963Gideon

Director

21

Type

Year

Hungers Feature Film1987

Eclipse Short Film1979

Sunstone Poster

Sunstone Short Film1979

Sur Faces Poster

Sur Faces Feature Film1977

Family Focus Poster

Family Focus Feature Film1976

Crossings and Meetings Video1974

Chrysalis Poster

Chrysalis Short Film1973

Scape-Mates Poster

Scape-Mates Video1972

Film with Three Dancers Poster

Film with Three Dancers Short Film1971

Branches Poster

Branches Feature Film1970

Carol Short Film1970

Image, Flesh and Voice Poster

Image, Flesh and Voice Feature Film1969

Relativity Poster

Relativity Short Film1966

George Dumpson's Place Poster

George Dumpson's Place Documentary1965

Scrambles Poster

Scrambles Short Film1964

Thanatopsis Poster

Thanatopsis Short Film1963

Totem Short Film1963

Lifelines Poster

Lifelines Short Film1960

Dance Chromatic Poster

Dance Chromatic Short Film1959

Transformation Poster

Transformation Short Film1959

Cinematographer

20

Type

Year

Eclipse Short Film1979

Sur Faces Poster

Sur Faces Feature Film1977

Family Focus Poster

Family Focus Feature Film1976

Chrysalis Poster

Chrysalis Short Film1973

Painters Painting Poster

Painters Painting Documentary1972

Scape-Mates Poster

Scape-Mates Video1972

Millhouse Poster

Millhouse Documentary1971

Carol Short Film1970

Report Documentary1970

Jr. Trek Poster

Jr. Trek Short Film1969

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Poster

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Documentary1967

Scrambles Poster

Scrambles Short Film1964

Hallelujah the Hills Poster

Hallelujah the Hills Feature Film1963

Thanatopsis Poster

Thanatopsis Short Film1963

The Existentialist Short Film1963

The Streets of Greenwood Poster

The Streets of Greenwood Short Film1962

Time of the Heathen Poster

Time of the Heathen Feature Film1961

Dance Chromatic Poster

Dance Chromatic Short Film1959

Transformation Poster

Transformation Short Film1959

Editor

8

Type

Year

Sur Faces Poster

Sur Faces Feature Film1977

Family Focus Poster

Family Focus Feature Film1976

Chrysalis Poster

Chrysalis Short Film1973

Carol Short Film1970

The Streets of Greenwood Poster

The Streets of Greenwood Short Film1962

Time of the Heathen Poster

Time of the Heathen Feature Film1961

Transformation Poster

Transformation Short Film1959

Writer

5

Type

Year

Sunstone Poster

Sunstone Short Film1979

Scape-Mates Poster

Scape-Mates Video1972

Film with Three Dancers Poster

Film with Three Dancers Short Film1971

The Streets of Greenwood Poster

The Streets of Greenwood Short Film1962

Art Director

3

Type

Year

Time of the Heathen Poster

Time of the Heathen Feature Film1961

Lifelines Poster

Lifelines Short Film1960

Dance Chromatic Poster

Dance Chromatic Short Film1959

Producer

2

Type

Year

Scape-Mates Poster

Scape-Mates Video1972

Transformation Poster

Transformation Short Film1959

Other Crew

2

Type

Year

Computers Are People, Too! Poster

Computers Are People, Too! Documentary1982

The Brig Poster

The Brig Feature Film1964

Camera and Electrical Department

1

The American Way Poster

The American Way Short Film1962

Sound Department

1

Chrysalis Poster

Chrysalis Short Film1973

Special Effects

1

The Lathe of Heaven Poster

The Lathe of Heaven TV Movie1980

Thanks

1

Computers: The Friendly Invasion Short Film1982

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