Van McElwee photo

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.

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