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