Person
Van McElwee
Directing
Biography
Van McElwee’s body of media art includes over one hundred single channel video works, installations and web projects. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, The National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund (seven-time recipient), a Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a travel grant from the Government of India. McElwee’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide and is represented in The Kitchen Video Collection in New York and by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, Heure Exquise! in France, UK and the Inter Media Art Institute in Germany, and LUX in the UK.
Known for
Waveform Modulation
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Zig Zag
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Soft City
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Cloud Catcher
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Y-Space
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Half-Real
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Mexican Dream
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Ancestor House
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Radio Island
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Archaic Rooms
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Filmography
- 2024Exotic VectorDirector
- 2024Cylinder SealDirector
- 2023IncarnationDirector
- 2023Score in VariationDirector
- 2021Atlas of the Last WorldDirector
- 2021Ancestor HouseDirector
- 2021World SkinDirector
- 2021Zig ZagDirector
- 2019The Map is the TerritoryDirector
- 2019Unnatural SelectionDirector
- 2018Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a PlaneDirector
- 2017MercadoDirector
- 2016Archaic RoomsDirector
- 2016WanderungDirector
- 2016Solutions to an Unknown ProblemDirector
- 2016OutpostDirector
- 2015Soft CityDirector
- 2015Objects in a LandscapeDirector
- 2015Mexican DreamDirector
- 2015Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is EverywhereDirector
- 2013Travel DreamDirector
- 2013Dream TravelDirector
- 2013Original SelfDirector
- 2012ArcadesDirector
- 2012Color VectorDirector
- 2011And/OrDirector
- 2011SupernaturalDirector
- 2010VarifoldDirector
- 2010Red and Blue Armies in a ForestDirector
- 2010Half-RealDirector
- 2010Y-SpaceDirector
- 2010Blue SnowballsDirector
- 2010PlexDirector
- 2010Dream AlleysDirector
- 2010Meandering ModulesDirector
- 2010Cloud CatcherDirector
- 2009Liquid CrystalDirector
- 2009NavigatorsDirector
- 2009The Capitol of the MultiverseDirector
- 2008Aperspectival House VariationDirector
- 2008AlternityDirector
- 2007HyperplasmDirector
- 2007Aperspectival HouseDirector
- 2006Diagonal DriftDirector
- 2005VatDirector
- 2004Flag and Its ShadowDirector
- 2003NaturelandDirector
- 2002StupaformDirector
- 2001Waveform ModulationDirector
- 2001HeliogosDirector
- 2000ProcessionDirector
- 1999ConfluenceDirector
- 1999SouvenirDirector
- 1999Fourth AxisDirector
- 1998LuxorDirector
- 1997Radio IslandDirector
- 1996Transfinite LoopsDirector
- 1995Folded FolliesDirector
- 1994Space SpliceDirector
- 1993BinduDirector
- 1993Fragments of IndiaDirector
- 1990RefractionDirector
- 1990DistanceDirector
- 1988Space Time Loops : CityscapeDirector
- 1986InsideDirector
- 1981Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and DoorbellsDirector
- 1980Mobius Film Loop PropellersDirector
- 1979Double FlameDirector
- 1979Split/FlowDirector
- 1979Dropout WindowDirector
- 1976Video Feedback, ARP DroneDirector
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