Myron Emery
Directing
Biography
Myron received his bachelor's degree in 1970 from the Chouinard Art Institute and his master's degree in 1973 from the California Institute of the Arts. He freelanced as director, cinematographer, editor on documentary and educational films in Los Angeles. Worked as a senior filmmaker at public television station WTVI. Is now faculty Emeritus of the CalArts Program in Experimental Animation Faculty and was for several years the Experimental Animation Program Director. Myron also held administrative positions as Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts. Myron's international experience includes teaching numerous workshops in France, China, and Taiwan. He has produced and conducted conferences for teachers in Spain, France, China, and the USA. His documentaries “God with a Green Face” and “Pat O'Neill”, and experimental films, “Cumulonimbus”, “Deca-Dance”, “Photo Flow” “X-Streams” and "Moments Pass" have been screened or received awards at several international film festivals.
Known For

A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.
Cumulonimbus

Documents the life and works of filmmaker Pat O'Neill, showing the making of a select group of films and discussion of these films by O'Neill.
Pat O'Neill

Appropriated footage of dance styles from around the world rephotographed, recomposed, and re-conceptualized through optical printer techniques.
Deca Dance

A melancolic time in the continuum of time.
Moments Pass

Seven separate visions of Los Angeles, sprawling, fast-paced city of millions. Myron Emery teaches optical printing at the California Institute of the Arts, using apparatus left over from the first "Star Wars" film. "X-Streams" is the work of seven of his students (including Adrian Bruch from Melbourne); only one of them was a native of the "City of the Angels”.
X Streams

Homage/portrait to a utility building on the Santa Monica pier
Photo Flow
Michael, later in life also known as Mikhail, became intrigued by news of youth like himself running off to San Francisco, to new ideas, living communally and breaking away from conservative expectations. In these times of social exploration, of liberated energy, of amassing memory after memory there also were conflicts with those intolerant of everything the young ones created. After a few short years, numerous traumatic experiences drove many to return home and others to seek utopia elsewhere. Michael/Mikhail was not a revolutionary, he was only lending a hand to a way of life that fostered a healthy, prosperous community, a place where mutual support raises the wellbeing and power of everyone.
Memory 1136

This colorful introduction to India’s greatest theatre tradition - the dance-drama of Kathakali features the Kerala Kalamadalam Company performing dances of the State of Kerala which have evolved out of the Sanskrit tradition and the indigenous Dravidian culture. The dancers display a great richness of costume, vivid color and originality of head-dress.
God with a Green Face

Texture motion graphic painting inspired by the Tidal Zone.