A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
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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