Ed Emshwiller

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-02-16 (65 years old)

Deathday

1990-07-27

Place of Birth

Lansing, Michigan

Ed Emshwiller

Biography

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 compute...

Production

1974

Suite 212

as Camera Operator

1963

Thanatopsis

as Director

1965

1959

Dance Chromatic

as Director

1967

Dont Look Back

as Camera Operator

1979

Sunstone

as Director

1979

Sunstone

as Writer

1960

Lifelines

as Director

1970

Carol

as Director

1970

Report

as Sound Recordist

1966

Relativity

as Director

1963

The Existentialist

as Cinematography

1962

The American Way

as Camera Operator

1979

Eclipse

as Director

1970

Carol

as Editor

1970

Carol

as Cinematography

1972

Scape-Mates

as Director

1964

Scrambles

as Director

1963

Hallelujah the Hills

as Cinematography

1969

1966

Oysters Are in Season

as Director of Photography

1959

Transformation

as Director

1963

Totem

as Director

1963

Totem

as Editor

1963

Totem

as Director of Photography

1974

1967

Fusion

as Director

1962

Time of the Heathen

as Art Direction

1984

Skin Matrix S

as Director

1962

1973

1973

Chrysalis

as Director

1973

Chrysalis

as Cinematography

1976

Family Focus

as Cinematography

1971

Millhouse

as Cinematography

1966

Art Scene USA

as Director

1970

Branches

as Director

1976

Family Focus

as Editor

1962

The Streets of Greenwood

as Cinematography

1973

Painters Painting

as Cinematography

1973

Chrysalis

as Sound

1972

Thermogenesis

as Director

1984

Skin Matrix

as Director

1962

Time of the Heathen

as Cinematography

1987

Hungers

as Director

1965

Faces of America

as Director

1976

Family Focus

as Director

1975

Inside Edges

as Director

1968

Project Apollo

as Director

1972

1976

Self-Trio

as Director

1966

In Three Zones

as Director

1972

Woe Oh Ho No

as Director

1977

Sur Faces

as Director

1970

Images

as Director

1978

Dubs

as Director

1958

Monsters

as Director

1958

Big Vacation

as Director

1965

Film Magazine of the Arts

as Cinematography

1972

Scape-Mates

as Writer

1973

Identities

as Director

1963

Freedom March

as Director

1970

Report

as Cinematography

1969

Jr. Star Trek

as Cinematography

1980

The Lathe of Heaven

as Special Effects

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