Screening Room — Season 1, Episode 16: Screening Room with Ed Emshwiller

Episode synopsis

Ed Emshwiller started out as an abstract expressionist painter and an award-winning science fiction illustrator before becoming a major figure in avant-garde cinema and the experimental film movement of the 1960s and '70s. Eventually a highly respected video artist and dean at the School of Film/Videoo at the California Institute of the Arts, Emshwiller was always looking for ways to push the boundaries of film and video. He was a pioneer of computer-generated video and combining technology with art. Many of his films, including Relativity, Totem, Film with Three Dancers, and Thanatopsis received screenings and awards at New York, Cannes and other major film festivals worldwide.

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More episodes from Season 1

• E1Screening Room with John Whitney Sr.
• E2Screening Room with Les Blank
• E3Screening Room with Hilary Harris
• E4Screening Room with Bruce Baillie
• E5Screening Room with Robert Fulton
• E6Screening Room with Jan Lenica
• E7Screening Room with John & Faith Hubley
• E8Screening Room with Stan Brakhage
• E9Screening Room with Derek Lamb
• E10Screening Room with Emile de Antonio
• E11Screening Room with Ricky Leacock
• E12Screening Room with Standish Lawder & Stanley Cavell