Ed Emshwiller
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.

Home Movies 1971-81

Galaxie

Hallelujah the Hills

Family Focus

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Lost, Lost, Lost

Painters Painting

Birth of a Nation

Solstice and Solyanka

Suite 212

Thanatopsis

George Dumpson's Place

Dance Chromatic

Dont Look Back

Sunstone

Sunstone

Carol

Lifelines
The Thing from Back Issues

Report

Relativity

Film with Three Dancers
The Existentialist

The American Way

Eclipse

Carol

Carol

Scape-Mates

Scrambles

Hallelujah the Hills

Image, Flesh and Voice

Oysters Are in Season

Transformation

Totem

Totem

Totem

Crossings and Meetings

Painters Painting

Millhouse
Fusion

Family Focus

Paintings by Ed Emshwiller

Dubs

Hungers

The Streets of Greenwood

Thermogenesis

Chrysalis

Chrysalis

Skin Matrix

Pilobolus and Joan

Branches

Chrysalis

Sur Faces

Time of the Heathen

Time of the Heathen

Choice Chance Woman Dance

Time of the Heathen

Family Focus

Art Scene USA

Skin Matrix S
In Three Zones

Project Apollo
Images
Inside Edges

Self-Trio
Big Vacation
New England Visions Past and Future

Family Focus
Woe Oh Ho No
Computer Graphics #1
Monsters
Faces of America
Positive Negative Electronic Faces

Film Magazine of the Arts

Scape-Mates
Freedom March
Identities

Report
Jr. Star Trek
