Ed Emshwiller Movies

  • 1967
    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

    7.41967HD

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

    Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
  • 1973
    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    Painters Painting

    71973HD

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

    Painters Painting
  • 1966
    Relativity

    Relativity

    Relativity

    5.51966HD

    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...

    Relativity
  • 1980
    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    6.5981980HD

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

    The Lathe of Heaven
  • 1979
    Sunstone

    Sunstone

    Sunstone

    71979HD

    Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

    Sunstone
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1971
    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    Millhouse

    6.91971HD

    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...

    Millhouse
  • 1976
    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    Family Focus

    71976HD

    Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies,...

    Family Focus
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.31968HD

    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,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    7.11976HD

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

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1962
    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    Time of the Heathen

    81962HD

    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...

    Time of the Heathen
  • 1972
    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    Scape-Mates

    6.31972HD

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

    Scape-Mates
  • 1970
    Carol

    Carol

    Carol

    61970HD

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

    Carol
  • 1966
    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    101966HD

    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....

    Galaxie
  • 1963
    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

    6.41963HD

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

    Thanatopsis
  • 1979
    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Eclipse

    71979HD

    Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

    Eclipse
  • 1965
    Film Magazine of the Arts

    Film Magazine of the Arts

    Film Magazine of the Arts

    91965HD

    "In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it - didn't they...

    Film Magazine of the Arts
  • 1973
    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    01973HD

    During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  • 1973
    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    01973HD

    Made in collaboration with Alvin Nikolais, featuring the Nikolais dance company. CHRYSALIS is the result of structuring a series of cinematic and...

    Chrysalis
  • 1970
    Report

    Report

    Report

    01970HD

    Shot during the 1968/69 school year at University of California Berkeley, Report was created as part of Norman Jacobson’s experimental...

    Report