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