Ed Emshwiller Movies
- 1980

The Lathe of Heaven
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George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...
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- 1970

Carol
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Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.
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- 1963

Thanatopsis
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Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.
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- 1963

Totem
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A filmic interpretation of a modern dance ballet by Alvin Nikolais. Earth, fire, water and primordial mysteries in a cine-dance.
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- 1976

Lost, Lost, Lost
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Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...
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- 1969

Image, Flesh and Voice
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This independent underground feature films two dancers (Carolyn Carlson and Emery Hermans) in silhouettes and shadows. Other couples discuss their...
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- 1962

The Streets of Greenwood
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THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...
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- 1966

Oysters Are in Season
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Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations....
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- 1973

Positive Negative Electronic Faces
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A collaboration between Ed Emshwiller and Anthony Bannon funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant.
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- 1977

Sur Faces
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Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as...
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- 1959

Transformation
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The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous...
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- 1959

Dance Chromatic
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Integrating film and painting, "Dance Chromatic" reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth of form and...
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- 1960

Lifelines
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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...
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- 1965

George Dumpson's Place
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Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George...
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- 1972

Woe Oh Ho No
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A video film by Ed Emshwiller
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- 1978

Dubs
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Dubs is a somewhat abstract, experimental video without a clearly defined plot. It focusses mostly on the relationships between men and women and the...
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- 1956

The Thing from Back Issues
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A film by Ed Emshwiller made with writers from the Original Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference. Silent film. Mid 1950s.
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- 1971

Choice Chance Woman Dance
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A subjective film song of awareness; woman alone, woman with child, woman as scientist, woman as artist, woman with woman, woman with man. Paradox...
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- 1958

Big Vacation
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The third film by Ed Emshwiller
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- 1975

Inside Edges
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A video work by Ed Emshwiller
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