Van McElwee
Known for
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.
Best known work
And/Or
2011
Waveform Modulation
2001
Vat
2005
Stupaform
2002
Radio Island
1997
Luxor
1998
Liquid Crystal
2009
Double Flame
1979
Split/Flow
1979
Mobius Film Loop Propellers
1980Filmography
2024
Exotic VectorDirector
2024
Cylinder SealDirector
2023
IncarnationDirector
2023
Score in VariationDirector
2021
Atlas of the Last WorldDirector
2021
Ancestor HouseDirector
2021
World SkinDirector
2021
Zig ZagDirector
2019
The Map is the TerritoryDirector
2019
Unnatural SelectionDirector
2018
Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a PlaneDirector, Animation, Editor, Sound
2017
MercadoDirector
2016
Archaic RoomsDirector
2016
WanderungDirector
2016
Solutions to an Unknown ProblemDirector
2016
OutpostDirector
2015
Soft CityDirector
2015
Objects in a LandscapeDirector
2015
Mexican DreamDirector
2015
2013
Travel DreamDirector
2013
Dream TravelDirector
2013
Original SelfDirector
2012
ArcadesDirector
2012
Color VectorDirector