Van McElwee
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.
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movieExotic Vector
2024
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movieCylinder Seal
2024
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movieIncarnation
2023
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movieScore in Variation
2023
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movieAtlas of the Last World
2021
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movieAncestor House
2021
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movieWorld Skin
2021
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movieZig Zag
2021
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movieUnnatural Selection
2019
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movieMercado
2017
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movieArchaic Rooms
2016
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movieWanderung
2016
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movieOutpost
2016
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movieSoft City
2015
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movieObjects in a Landscape
2015
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movieMexican Dream
2015
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movieTravel Dream
2013
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movieDream Travel
2013
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movieOriginal Self
2013
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movieArcades
2012
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movieColor Vector
2012
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movieAnd/Or
2011
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movieSupernatural
2011
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movieVarifold
2010
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movieHalf-Real
2010
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movieY-Space
2010
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movieBlue Snowballs
2010
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moviePlex
2010
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movieDream Alleys
2010
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movieMeandering Modules
2010
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movieCloud Catcher
2010
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movieLiquid Crystal
2009
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movieNavigators
2009
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movieAlternity
2008
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movieHyperplasm
2007
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movieAperspectival House
2007
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movieDiagonal Drift
2006
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movieVat
2005
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movieFlag and Its Shadow
2004
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movieNatureland
2003
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movieStupaform
2002
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movieWaveform Modulation
2001
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movieHeliogos
2001
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movieProcession
2000
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movieConfluence
1999
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movieSouvenir
1999
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movieFourth Axis
1999
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movieLuxor
1998
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movieRadio Island
1997
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movieTransfinite Loops
1996
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movieFolded Follies
1995
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movieSpace Splice
1994
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movieBindu
1993
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movieFragments of India
1993
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movieRefraction
1990
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movieDistance
1990
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movieInside
1986
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movieDouble Flame
1979
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movieSplit/Flow
1979
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movieDropout Window
1979
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moviePlex
2010
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