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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:
| Year | Title | Distributor |
| 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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