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Ed Emshwiller
Lansing, Michigan
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…
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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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1997
Birth of a Nation
Movie
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1987
Hungers
Movie Director
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1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Movie
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1984
Skin Matrix S
Movie Director
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1984
Skin Matrix
Movie Director
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1980
The Lathe of Heaven
Movie Special Effects
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1979
Sunstone
Movie Director
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1979
Eclipse
Movie Director
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1978
Dubs
Movie Director
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1977
Sur Faces
Movie Director
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1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
Movie Self
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1976
Self-Trio
Movie Director
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1976
New England Visions Past and Future
Movie Director
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1976
Family Focus
Movie Himself
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1975
Inside Edges
Movie Director
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1975
Solstice and Solyanka
Movie
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1974
Suite 212
Movie Camera Operator
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1974
Crossings and Meetings
Movie Director
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1973
Chrysalis
Movie Director
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1973
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
Movie Director
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1973
Identities
Movie Director
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1973
Pilobolus and Joan
Movie Director
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1973
Painters Painting
Movie
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1972
Woe Oh Ho No
Movie Director
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1972
Scape-Mates
Movie Director
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1972
Computer Graphics #1
Movie Director
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1972
Thermogenesis
Movie Director
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1971
Millhouse
Movie Cinematography
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1971
Film with Three Dancers
Movie Director
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1971
Choice Chance Woman Dance
Movie Director
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1970
Branches
Movie Director
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1970
Carol
Movie Director
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1970
Report
Movie Sound Recordist
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1970
Images
Movie Director
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1969
Image, Flesh and Voice
Movie Director
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1969
Jr. Star Trek
Movie Cinematography
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1968
Project Apollo
Movie Director
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1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie Self
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1967
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Movie Camera Operator
