Carol Emshwiller

Ed Emshwiller (1925- 1990) was an “abstract painter, turned science-fiction-cover-artist, turned filmmaker, who in the 1970s also embraced video, installations, and computer art. As a filmmaker, Emshwiller persistently worked to enlarge the realm of cinema, both technically and conceptually. Using camera movement, multiple exposures, and controlled lighting, Emshwiller was able to speak metaphorically, to construct images that set men and women in larger, sometimes cosmic contexts. Language a…