Van McElwee

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.

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Animation:
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane

Cinematography:
2010  Plex
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane

Director:
1976  Video Feedback, ARP Drone
1979  Double Flame
1979  Dropout Window
1979  Split/Flow
1980  Mobius Film Loop Propellers
1981  Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells
1986  Inside
1988  Space Time Loops : Cityscape
1990  Distance
1990  Refraction
1993  Bindu
1993  Fragments of India
1994  Space Splice
1995  Folded Follies
1996  Transfinite Loops
1997  Radio Island
1998  Luxor
1999  Confluence
1999  Fourth Axis
1999  Souvenir
2000  Procession
2001  Heliogos
2001  Waveform Modulation
2002  Stupaform
2003  Natureland
2004  Flag and Its Shadow
2005  Vat
2006  Diagonal Drift
2007  Aperspectival House
2007  Hyperplasm
2008  Alternity
2008  Aperspectival House Variation
2009  Liquid Crystal
2009  Navigators
2009  The Capitol of the Multiverse
2010  Blue Snowballs
2010  Cloud Catcher
2010  Dream Alleys
2010  Half-Real
2010  Meandering Modules
2010  Plex
2010  Red and Blue Armies in a Forest
2010  Varifold
2010  Y-Space
2011  And/Or
2011  Supernatural
2012  Arcades
2012  Color Vector
2013  Dream Travel
2013  Original Self
2013  Travel Dream
2015  Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere
2015  Mexican Dream
2015  Objects in a Landscape
2015  Soft City
2016  Archaic Rooms
2016  Outpost
2016  Solutions to an Unknown Problem
2016  Wanderung
2017  Mercado
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane
2019  The Map is the Territory
2019  Unnatural Selection
2021  Ancestor House
2021  Atlas of the Last World
2021  World Skin
2021  Zig Zag
2023  Incarnation
2023  Score in Variation
2024  Cylinder Seal
2024  Exotic Vector

Editor:
1976  Video Feedback, ARP Drone
1979  Double Flame
1979  Dropout Window
1979  Split/Flow
1980  Mobius Film Loop Propellers
1981  Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells
1986  Inside
1988  Space Time Loops : Cityscape
1990  Distance
1990  Refraction
1993  Bindu
1993  Fragments of India
1994  Space Splice
1995  Folded Follies
1996  Transfinite Loops
1997  Radio Island
1998  Luxor
1999  Confluence
1999  Fourth Axis
1999  Souvenir
2000  Procession
2001  Heliogos
2001  Waveform Modulation
2002  Stupaform
2003  Natureland
2004  Flag and Its Shadow
2005  Vat
2006  Diagonal Drift
2007  Aperspectival House
2007  Hyperplasm
2008  Alternity
2008  Aperspectival House Variation
2009  Liquid Crystal
2009  Navigators
2009  The Capitol of the Multiverse
2010  Blue Snowballs
2010  Cloud Catcher
2010  Dream Alleys
2010  Half-Real
2010  Meandering Modules
2010  Plex
2010  Red and Blue Armies in a Forest
2010  Varifold
2010  Y-Space
2011  And/Or
2011  Supernatural
2012  Arcades
2012  Color Vector
2013  Dream Travel
2013  Original Self
2013  Travel Dream
2015  Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere
2015  Mexican Dream
2015  Objects in a Landscape
2015  Soft City
2016  Archaic Rooms
2016  Outpost
2016  Solutions to an Unknown Problem
2016  Wanderung
2017  Mercado
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane
2019  The Map is the Territory
2019  Unnatural Selection
2021  Ancestor House
2021  Atlas of the Last World
2021  World Skin
2021  Zig Zag
2023  Incarnation
2023  Score in Variation
2024  Cylinder Seal
2024  Exotic Vector

Music:
1976  Video Feedback, ARP Drone
1979  Double Flame
1979  Dropout Window
1979  Split/Flow
1980  Mobius Film Loop Propellers
1981  Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells
1986  Inside
1988  Space Time Loops : Cityscape
1990  Distance
1990  Refraction
1993  Bindu
1993  Fragments of India
1994  Space Splice
1995  Folded Follies
1996  Transfinite Loops
1997  Radio Island
1998  Luxor
1999  Confluence
1999  Fourth Axis
1999  Souvenir
2000  Procession
2001  Heliogos
2001  Waveform Modulation
2002  Stupaform
2003  Natureland
2004  Flag and Its Shadow
2005  Vat
2006  Diagonal Drift
2007  Aperspectival House
2007  Hyperplasm
2008  Alternity
2008  Aperspectival House Variation
2009  Liquid Crystal
2009  Navigators
2009  The Capitol of the Multiverse
2010  Blue Snowballs
2010  Cloud Catcher
2010  Dream Alleys
2010  Half-Real
2010  Meandering Modules
2010  Plex
2010  Red and Blue Armies in a Forest
2010  Varifold
2010  Y-Space
2011  And/Or
2011  Supernatural
2012  Arcades
2012  Color Vector
2013  Dream Travel
2013  Original Self
2013  Travel Dream
2015  Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere
2015  Mexican Dream
2015  Objects in a Landscape
2015  Soft City
2016  Archaic Rooms
2016  Outpost
2016  Solutions to an Unknown Problem
2016  Wanderung
2017  Mercado
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane
2019  The Map is the Territory
2019  Unnatural Selection
2021  Ancestor House
2021  Atlas of the Last World
2021  World Skin
2021  Zig Zag
2023  Incarnation
2023  Score in Variation
2024  Cylinder Seal
2024  Exotic Vector

Sound:
1976  Video Feedback, ARP Drone
1979  Double Flame
1979  Dropout Window
1979  Split/Flow
1980  Mobius Film Loop Propellers
1981  Water, Lightbulbs, Dying Bugs and Doorbells
1986  Inside
1988  Space Time Loops : Cityscape
1990  Distance
1990  Refraction
1993  Bindu
1993  Fragments of India
1994  Space Splice
1995  Folded Follies
1996  Transfinite Loops
1997  Radio Island
1998  Luxor
1999  Confluence
1999  Fourth Axis
1999  Souvenir
2000  Procession
2001  Heliogos
2001  Waveform Modulation
2002  Stupaform
2003  Natureland
2004  Flag and Its Shadow
2005  Vat
2006  Diagonal Drift
2007  Aperspectival House
2007  Hyperplasm
2008  Alternity
2008  Aperspectival House Variation
2009  Liquid Crystal
2009  Navigators
2009  The Capitol of the Multiverse
2010  Blue Snowballs
2010  Cloud Catcher
2010  Dream Alleys
2010  Half-Real
2010  Meandering Modules
2010  Plex
2010  Red and Blue Armies in a Forest
2010  Varifold
2010  Y-Space
2011  And/Or
2011  Supernatural
2012  Arcades
2012  Color Vector
2013  Dream Travel
2013  Original Self
2013  Travel Dream
2015  Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere
2015  Mexican Dream
2015  Objects in a Landscape
2015  Soft City
2016  Archaic Rooms
2016  Outpost
2016  Solutions to an Unknown Problem
2016  Wanderung
2017  Mercado
2018  Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane
2019  The Map is the Territory
2019  Unnatural Selection
2021  Ancestor House
2021  Atlas of the Last World
2021  World Skin
2021  Zig Zag
2023  Incarnation
2023  Score in Variation
2024  Cylinder Seal
2024  Exotic Vector

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