Movies: Ed Emshwiller

  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scen...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1966
    Galaxie

    Galaxie (1966)

    Galaxie

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    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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike K...

    Galaxie
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost (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 struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community....

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1963
    The Existentialist

    The Existentialist (1963)

    The Existentialist

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

    The Existentialist
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka (1975)

    Solstice and Solyanka

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    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appearance, are Robert Breer, John Terry, Steve Ascher, Richard Leacock, Jon Rubin, Frank Daniel, Ed Emshwi...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1980
    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven (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, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of m...

    The Lathe of Heaven
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212 (1974)

    Suite 212

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    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Paik critiques the selling of New York by multinational corporations and the...

    Suite 212
  • 1963
    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills (1963)

    Hallelujah the Hills

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    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 sketches, flashbacks and homages....

    Hallelujah the Hills
  • 1967
    Dont Look Back

    Dont Look Back (1967)

    Dont Look Back

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    In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Pri...

    Dont Look Back
  • 1962
    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen (1962)

    Time of the Heathen

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    In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the rape and murder of a black woman is framed and pursued by locals while left as the sole protector of the woman’s young son....

    Time of the Heathen
  • 1966
    Oysters Are in Season

    Oysters Are in Season (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. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose...

    Oysters Are in Season
  • 1962
    The American Way

    The American Way (1962)

    The American Way

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

    The American Way
  • 1979
    Sunstone

    Sunstone (1979)

    Sunstone

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    Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller....

    Sunstone
  • 1963
    Totem

    Totem (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....

    Totem
  • 1976
    Family Focus

    Family Focus (1976)

    Family Focus

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    Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transf...

    Family Focus
  • 1966
    Relativity

    Relativity (1966)

    Relativity

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    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 deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is...

    Relativity
  • 1973
    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis (1973)

    Chrysalis

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    Made in collaboration with Alvin Nikolais, featuring the Nikolais dance company. CHRYSALIS is the result of structuring a series of cinematic and dance ideas Nikolais and I had. The film involves the dancers in improvised choreography, varied costume...

    Chrysalis
  • 1973
    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting (1973)

    Painters Painting

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    Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in ...

    Painters Painting
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a ...

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1971
    Film with Three Dancers

    Film with Three Dancers (1971)

    Film with Three Dancers

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    In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying camera, a dream of flying, a kind of sensual, sexual imagery where you were constantly going into an unknown s...

    Film with Three Dancers