Ed Emshwiller Movies

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

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

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

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

The first film by Ed Emswhiller

A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.

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

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

Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...

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

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....

A video film by Ed Emshwiller

A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...

A film based on play by Wilford Leach

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

A delightful short film shot in reverse in which the main protagonist enjoys a day on the town.

A film by Ed Emshwiller that surveys, without narration, the vast human and material resources committed to the U.S. space program. Uses recurring...

An impressionistic portrait of America's diversity

A look at painting, sculpture and the dance in the United States today, as represented by works of many of its best-known artists - Andrew Wyeth,...