Editing Ed Emshwiller (section)

== Film and video ==
[[File:Sunstonebook.jpg|thumb|A frame from Ed Emshwiller's video ''Sunstone'' (1979) was used on the front cover of this 1982 book published  by Addison-Wesley.]]

''Thanatopsis'' (1962), featuring brother Mac Emshwiller and sharing the title with [[William Cullen Bryant]]'s 1817 poem,<ref>[https://vimeo.com/1000959090 Thanatopsis (audio commentary) (Art & Trash Miniature 25) - Art & Trash on Vimeo]</ref> was his first five-minute film. In 1964, a [[Ford Foundation]] grant allowed Emshwiller to pursue his interest in 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).<ref>[https://vimeo.com/535227743 Scales of Being: Ed Emshwiller's Relativity - Art & Trash on Vimeo]</ref> He also was a cinematographer on documentaries, such as [[Emile de Antonio]]'s ''[[Painters Painting]]'' (1972), and feature films, such as ''Time of the Heathen'' (1962) and [[Adolfas Mekas]]' ''Hallelujah the Hills'' (1963).  Emshwiller's footage of [[Bob Dylan]] singing "[[Only a Pawn in Their Game]]" on July 6, 1963, at a Voters' Registration Rally in [[Greenwood, Mississippi]], was shot for Jack Willis' 1963 documentary ''[[Jack Willis|The Streets of Greenwood]]'' and appears in [[D. A. Pennebaker]]'s Dylan documentary, ''[[Dont Look Back]]'' (1967). For the [[United States Information Agency|US Information Agency]], he directed ''Faces of America'' (1965) and ''The 21st Century: The Shape of Films to Come'' (1968), a film that presents examples of films shown at Expo '67 that feature startling new visual effects and innovations. ''Filme with Three Dancers'' was made in 1970.

His films of the 1960s were mostly shot in 16mm color, and some of these included double exposures created simply by rewinding the cameras. He was one of the earliest video artists. With ''Scape-Mates'' (1972), he began his experiments in video, combining computer animation with live-action. In 1979, he produced ''Sunstone'', a groundbreaking three-minute 3-D computer-generated video made at the [[New York Institute of Technology]] with [[Alvy Ray Smith]].<ref>[http://www.vdb.org/artists/ed-emshwiller Video Data Bank]</ref> Now in the Museum of Modern Art's video collection, ''Sunstone'' was exhibited at SIGGRAPH 79, the 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival and other festivals. In 1979, it was shown on WNET's ''Video/Film Review'', and a ''Sunstone'' frame was used on the front cover of ''Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics'', published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.<ref>[http://www.alvyray.com/Art/ Alvy Ray Smith: Art].</ref>