Ed Emshwiller Movies

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated...

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

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

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Emile de Antonio's film decimates Richard Nixon and exposes him as a paranoid, power mad lunatic... de Antonio compiles (via video and film) what...

A comedy short which pokes merry anarchistic fun at such quintessential American institutions as mom, baseball, and apple pie. It features an early...

In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized...

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...

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

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

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

"A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the...

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....

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of...

Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...