Ed Emshwiller Movies

  • 1970
    Report

    Report

    Report

    01970HD

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

    Report
  • 1963
    Freedom March

    Freedom March

    Freedom March

    01963HD

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

    Freedom March
  • 1975
    Inside Edges

    Inside Edges

    Inside Edges

    01975HD

    A video work by Ed Emshwiller

    Inside Edges
  • 1970
    Images

    Images

    Images

    01970HD

    A video piece by Ed Emshwiller

    Images
  • 1984
    Skin Matrix S

    Skin Matrix S

    Skin Matrix S

    01984HD

    Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.

    Skin Matrix S
  • 1976
    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    01976HD

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

    Family Focus
  • 1963
    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

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

    Thanatopsis
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    01975HD

    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1966
    Oysters Are in Season

    Oysters Are in Season

    Oysters Are in Season

    01966HD

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

    Oysters Are in Season
  • 1976
    Self-Trio

    Self-Trio

    Self-Trio

    01976HD

    Choreographic dance video created in 1976 by Ed Emshwiller.

    Self-Trio
  • 1973
    Positive Negative Electronic Faces

    Positive Negative Electronic Faces

    Positive Negative Electronic Faces

    01973HD

    A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and Anthony Bannon funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant.

    Positive Negative Electronic Faces
  • 1972
    Woe Oh Ho No

    Woe Oh Ho No

    Woe Oh Ho No

    01972HD

    A video film by Ed Emshwiller

    Woe Oh Ho No
  • 1965
    Faces of America

    Faces of America

    Faces of America

    01965HD

    An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

    Faces of America
  • 1987
    Hungers

    Hungers

    Hungers

    01987HD

    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,...

    Hungers
  • 1977
    Sur Faces

    Sur Faces

    Sur Faces

    01977HD

    Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as...

    Sur Faces
  • 1973
    Pilobolus and Joan

    Pilobolus and Joan

    Pilobolus and Joan

    01973HD

    Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story...

    Pilobolus and Joan
  • 1984
    Skin Matrix

    Skin Matrix

    Skin Matrix

    01984HD

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

    Skin Matrix
  • 1962
    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    71962HD

    In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the rape and murder of a black woman is framed and...

    Time of the Heathen
  • 1970
    Branches

    Branches

    Branches

    01970HD

    Featuring Bill Weidner and Connie Brady, BRANCHES was made in a filmmaking workshop at Cornell University during the summer of 1970. The film was...

    Branches
  • 1969
    Image, Flesh and Voice

    Image, Flesh and Voice

    Image, Flesh and Voice

    61969HD

    This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...

    Image, Flesh and Voice