Stoney Emshwiller

Bloom discovers she is a fairy. She gets the chance to attend Alfea College with her new BFFs: Stella, Flora, Tecna, and Musa.

Idyllic Suburbia. Mom 'n' Apple Pie. Or not. This outrageous comedy turns suburban America on its head. Mad cow disease, Corporate Greed, Mob Mentality, the Cult of Motherhood, propaganda, discrimination, and dangerous kitchen utensils all find a home in this wild social satire.

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."

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."

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

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.

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.

Sunuculuğunu ünlü astrofizikçi Neil deGrasse Tyson’un üstlendiği bu belgesel serisi, Carl Sagan'ın 1980'deki "Cosmos: A Personal Journey" adlı belgeselinin modern bir yeniden yapımıdır. Belgesel, evrenin başlangıcından günümüze kadar olan süreçte, astronomi, fizik, biyoloji ve diğer bilim dallarındaki önemli keşiflere odaklanıyor. Her bölüm, izleyicileri farklı bir tema etrafında yönlendirerek, insanların evrendeki yerini ve doğanın işleyişini anlamalarına yardımcı oluyor. Bilimsel teoriler, tarihi figürler, uzay yolculukları ve doğa olayları gibi konular, görsel efektlerle desteklenen etkileyici anlatımlarla sunulmaktadır. "Cosmos", sadece bilgilendirici bir belgesel olmanın ötesinde, insanlığın merakını, bilimsel düşünceyi ve evrensel soruları teşvik eden bir yapım olarak dikkat çekmekle kalmıyor. İzleyiciyi düşündüren, ilham veren ve bilime olan sevgiyi alevlendiren bir deneyim sunarak, evrenin karmaşık yapısını keşfetmeye davet ediyor.