About Ed Emshwiller
Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was an American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but sometimes used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer and others. Thanatopsis (1962), featuring brother Mac Emshwiller and sharing the title with William Cullen Bryant's 1817 poem, was his first five-minute film. Active in the New American Cinema movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, he created multimedia performance pieces and did cine-dance and experimental films, such as the 38-minute Relativity (1966). His films of the 1960s were mostly shot in 16mm color, and some of these included double exposures created simply by rewinding the cameras.
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