About
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
Exotic Vector2024 · Director
Cylinder Seal2024 · Director
Incarnation2023 · Director
Score in Variation2023 · Director
Atlas of the Last World2021 · Director
Ancestor House2021 · Director
World Skin2021 · Director
Zig Zag2021 · Director
The Map is the Territory2019 · Director
Unnatural Selection2019 · Director
Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane2018 · Director, Animation, Editor, Sound
Mercado2017 · Director
Archaic Rooms2016 · Director
Wanderung2016 · Director
Solutions to an Unknown Problem2016 · Director
Outpost2016 · Director
Soft City2015 · Director
Objects in a Landscape2015 · Director
Mexican Dream2015 · Director
Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere2015 · Director