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