Stoney Emshwiller

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."

In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying camera, a dream of flying, a kind of sensual, sexual imagery where you were constantly going into an unknown space.” A trio of dancers (Carolyn Carlson, Emery Hermans, Bob Beswick) appear "first in leotards, then in bluejeans, then naked, as they “pass through rituals of movement.”

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbacks and homages.

The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transformed in an electronic mediation by the artist. The viewer is witness to the spontaneous activities and conversations of the family's quotidian home life, which is accompanied by Carol Emshwiller's ironic, often poetic commentary. In one sequence of home movies, the children are seen "growing" over a span of twenty years. Using the video camera as a kind of psychological mirror, Emshwiller integrates video's intimacy, reflexivity and realism with its "unreal" technological manipulations to form what the artist describes as a "documentary/video art transformation of self-revealing images."

In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized dancers are chroma-keyed into a mutable, computer-animated environment. Working with the "Scan-i-mate," an early analog video synthesizer, Emshwiller choreographs an architectural, illusory video space, in which frames proliferate within frames, disembodied heads and hands move within a collage of animated forms, and the dancers and their environment are subjected to constant transformations through image processing. With its witty interplay of the "real" and the "unreal" in an electronically rendered videospace, and the skillful manipulation and articulation of a sculptural illusion of three-dimensionality, Scape-mates introduced a new vocabulary of video image-making.

The ten-year-old filmmaker (and star) pays homage to the Star Trek series.

La série révolutionnaire de Carl Sagan voit dans "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" un successeur en 13 épisodes. Nous mettons à nouveau le cap sur les étoiles. A bord du vaisseau de l'imaginaire, piloté par l'astrophysicien Neil deGrasse Tyson, "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" narre de manière spectaculaire l'histoire de la connaissance et de l'humanité. Découvrir de nouveaux mondes qui gravitent autour du soleil, retracer les origines par des étoiles lointaines et voyager à travers l'univers pour une vision du cosmos à grande échelle, cette série est une expérience transcendante, celle qui explore la vraie nature de la science, son émotion, son esprit et son indéniable effet sur nous tous. La science est une voie vers l'avenir et "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" nous y emmène.

La série révolutionnaire de Carl Sagan voit dans "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" un successeur en 13 épisodes. Nous mettons à nouveau le cap sur les étoiles. A bord du vaisseau de l'imaginaire, piloté par l'astrophysicien Neil deGrasse Tyson, "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" narre de manière spectaculaire l'histoire de la connaissance et de l'humanité. Découvrir de nouveaux mondes qui gravitent autour du soleil, retracer les origines par des étoiles lointaines et voyager à travers l'univers pour une vision du cosmos à grande échelle, cette série est une expérience transcendante, celle qui explore la vraie nature de la science, son émotion, son esprit et son indéniable effet sur nous tous. La science est une voie vers l'avenir et "Cosmos : Une odyssée à travers l'univers" nous y emmène.