Ed Emshwiller
Directing
February 16, 1925
Died July 27, 1990 (65 years old)
Lansing, Michigan
10
Acting Credits
44
Directed
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
Filmography
Birth of a Nation
1997
7
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Family Focus
1976
as Himself
7
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
7.1
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Painters Painting
1973
7
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
7.3
Galaxie
1966
as Self
10
Hallelujah the Hills
1963
as Gideon
6.2