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Artist Profile: Ed Emshwiller

William Moritz



Ed Emshwiller was an influential figure in the experimental film movement that helped expand the horizons of American filmmaking in the 1960s. He studied art at the University of Michigan, the École Nationale Superiéure des Beaux- Arts in Paris and the Art Students' League. He was an abstract expressionist painter and science-fiction illustrator before he turned to film and video. In 1979, he made the groundbreaking three-minute 3-D computer work SUNSTONE at the New York Institute of Technology. That same year, he became dean of the film school at Cal Arts, where he was also provost from 1981 to 1986.

Selected Fimography:
YearTitleDistributor
1962 Thanatopsis CC, CFDC Arthouse
1963 Totem CC, CFDC
1979 Sunstone CC, CFDC
1984 Skin Matrix
1987 Hungers


Bibliography

In the Abstract
Ed Emshwiller Biography" L'art du Mouvement 1919-1996. Ed. Jean-Michel Bouhours, Cinéma du Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1996.
Making The Soul Visible Kinetica 4 Catalog







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