Ed Emshwiller

ActorDirectorCrewWriterEditor Feb 16 (died age 65) Lansing, Michigan 1956–1997 (41 year career)

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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 pioneer…

Known For

Film

Dont Look Back

Camera Operator

Film

The Lathe of Heaven

Special Effects

Film

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Self

Film

Lost, Lost, Lost

Self

Film

Thanatopsis

Director

Film

Hallelujah the Hills

Gideon

Film

Sunstone

Director

Film

Millhouse

Cinematography

Filmography

Acting (10)

Movies (10)

Birth of a Nation

Home Movies 1971-81

Family Focus

as Himself

Lost, Lost, Lost

1976

as Self

7.0

Solstice and Solyanka

1975

Painters Painting

1973

6.5

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

1973

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1968

as Self

7.4

Galaxie

1966

as Self

Hallelujah the Hills

1963

as Gideon

6.1

Crew (71)

Movies (71)

Hungers

1987

Director

Skin Matrix

1984

Director

Skin Matrix S

1984

Director

The Lathe of Heaven

Special Effects

Sunstone

Director

Sunstone

Writer

Eclipse

Director

Dubs

1978

Director

Sur Faces

1977

Director

Family Focus

1976

Cinematography

Family Focus

1976

Director

Family Focus

1976

Editor

Self-Trio

1976

Director

New England Visions Past and Future

1976

Director

Inside Edges

1975

Director

Crossings and Meetings

1974

Director

Suite 212

1974

Camera Operator

Painters Painting

1973

Cinematography

6.5

Chrysalis

1973

Cinematography

Chrysalis

1973

Director

Chrysalis

1973

Sound

Positive Negative Electronic Faces

1973

Director

Pilobolus and Joan

1973

Director

Identities

1973

Director

Scape-Mates

Director

Scape-Mates

Writer

Computer Graphics #1

Director

Thermogenesis

1972

Director

Woe Oh Ho No

1972

Director

Film with Three Dancers

Director

Millhouse

Cinematography

Choice Chance Woman Dance

1971

Director

Report

1970

Cinematography

Report

1970

Sound Recordist

Carol

Cinematography

Carol

Director

Carol

Editor

Branches

Director

Images

1970

Director

Jr. Star Trek

1969

Cinematography

1.0

Image, Flesh and Voice

Director

Project Apollo

Director

Dont Look Back

Camera Operator

Fusion

Director

Relativity

1966

Director

5.1

Oysters Are in Season

1966

Director of Photography

In Three Zones

1966

Director

Art Scene USA

1966

Director

Film Magazine of the Arts

1965

Cinematography

George Dumpson's Place

1965

Director

6.0

Faces of America

1965

Director

Scrambles

1964

Director

Hallelujah the Hills

1963

Cinematography

6.1

Totem

1963

Director

Totem

1963

Director of Photography

Totem

1963

Editor

Thanatopsis

Director

The Existentialist

Cinematography

Freedom March

Director

The American Way

1962

Camera Operator

5.1

The Streets of Greenwood

1962

Cinematography

Time of the Heathen

Art Direction

Time of the Heathen

Cinematography

Time of the Heathen

Editor

Lifelines

Director

Dance Chromatic

Director

Transformation

1959

Director

Paintings by Ed Emshwiller

1958

Director

8.0

Monsters

1958

Director

Big Vacation

1958

Director

The Thing from Back Issues

1956

Director