Van McElwee

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Van McElwee

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Van McElwee’s body of media art includes over one hundred single channel video works, installations and web projects. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Americ…

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Waveform Modulation

Waveform Modulation

2001 Movie
Zig Zag

Zig Zag

2021 Movie
Aperspectival House

Aperspectival House

2007 Movie
Radio Island

Radio Island

1997 Movie
And/Or

And/Or

2011 Movie
Archaic Rooms

Archaic Rooms

2016 Movie
Liquid Crystal

Liquid Crystal

2009 Movie
Cloud Catcher

Cloud Catcher

2010 Movie
Dream Travel

Dream Travel

2013 Movie
Plex

Plex

2010 Movie
Mexican Dream

Mexican Dream

2015 Movie
Transfinite Loops

Transfinite Loops

1996 Movie

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Van McElwee’s body of media art includes over one hundred single channel video works, installations and web projects. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, The National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund (seven-time recipient), a Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a travel grant from the Government of India. McElwee’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide and is represented in The Kitchen Video Collection in New York and by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, Heure Exquise! in France, UK and the Inter Media Art Institute in Germany, and LUX in the UK.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2024
    Cylinder Seal

    Movie Director

  2. 2024
    Exotic Vector

    Movie Director

  3. 2023
    Incarnation

    Movie Director

  4. 2023
    Score in Variation

    Movie Director

  5. 2021
    Zig Zag

    Movie Director

  6. 2021
    Ancestor House

    Movie Director

  7. 2021
    World Skin

    Movie Director

  8. 2021
    Atlas of the Last World

    Movie Director

  9. 2019
    Unnatural Selection

    Movie Director

  10. 2019
    The Map is the Territory

    Movie Director

  11. 2018
    Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane

    Movie Director

  12. 2017
    Mercado

    Movie Director

  13. 2016
    Archaic Rooms

    Movie Director

  14. 2016
    Outpost

    Movie Director

  15. 2016
    Wanderung

    Movie Director

  16. 2016
    Solutions to an Unknown Problem

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 2015
    Mexican Dream

    Movie Director

  2. 2015
    Soft City

    Movie Director

  3. 2015
    Objects in a Landscape

    Movie Director

  4. 2015
    Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere

    Movie Director

  5. 2013
    Dream Travel

    Movie Director

  6. 2013
    Original Self

    Movie Director

  7. 2013
    Travel Dream

    Movie Director

  8. 2012
    Arcades

    Movie Director

  9. 2012
    Color Vector

    Movie Director

  10. 2011
    And/Or

    Movie Director

  11. 2011
    Supernatural

    Movie Director

  12. 2010
    Cloud Catcher

    Movie Director

  13. 2010
    Plex

    Movie Director

  14. 2010
    Blue Snowballs

    Movie Director

  15. 2010
    Varifold

    Movie Director

  16. 2010
    Half-Real

    Movie Director

  17. 2010
    Y-Space

    Movie Director

  18. 2010
    Dream Alleys

    Movie Director

  19. 2010
    Meandering Modules

    Movie Director

  20. 2010
    Red and Blue Armies in a Forest

    Movie Director

  21. 2009
    Liquid Crystal

    Movie Director

  22. 2009
    Navigators

    Movie Director

  23. 2009
    The Capitol of the Multiverse

    Movie Director

  24. 2008
    Alternity

    Movie Director