Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 1977
    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

    01977HD

    Documentation and experimentation in real time, "Orbital Obsessions" is an example of early video self-portraiture, eerie and calm in its radical...

    Orbital Obsessions
  • 1974
    Soundgated Images

    Soundgated Images

    Soundgated Images

    01974HD

    The Multikeyer and Scan Processor are used for creating the pulsating abstract composition showing six different cases of audio-video interface with...

    Soundgated Images
  • 1974
    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

    01974HD

    This tape was created when Woody visited his native Moravia with a Portapak camera. In the course of signal modulation an alteration in the field of...

    Reminiscence
  • 1969
    Evolution

    Evolution

    Evolution

    01969HD

    Although the video artwork Evolution cites the well-known image of hominid evolution, it is more interested in the evolution of the media than in the...

    Evolution
  • 1975
    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

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    A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video...

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image
  • 1973
    Scan Processor Studies

    Scan Processor Studies

    Scan Processor Studies

    01973HD

    The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45...

    Scan Processor Studies
  • 1970
    Interface

    Interface

    Interface

    01970HD

    An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its...

    Interface
  • 1976
    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

    01976HD

    B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

    Switch! Monitor! Drift!
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    01973HD

    Vocabulary
  • 1978
    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

    01978HD

    This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video
  • 1996
    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

    01996HD

    A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews,...

    Binary Lives
  • 1987
    Art of Memory

    Art of Memory

    Art of Memory

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    Manipulating a variety of sources, Vasulka uses creative imaging tools to situate historical images against Southwestern landscapes of incredible...

    Art of Memory
  • 1980
    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

    01980HD

    Cantaloup is an informal documentary on the Vasulkas' Digital Image Articulator, an imaging device they designed with Jeffrey Schier. Using a...

    Cantaloup
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    01980HD

    Short film.

    Artifacts
  • 1975
    Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

    Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

    Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

    01975HD

    Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic...

    Homemade TV: Vasulkas II
  • 1972
    Mars: An Optic Aspic

    Mars: An Optic Aspic

    Mars: An Optic Aspic

    01972HD

    Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody...

    Mars: An Optic Aspic
  • 1974
    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

    01974HD

    Short experimental film by Steina, Woody Vasulka

    Heraldic View
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 1978
    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    01978HD

    In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations,...

    Vasulka Video
  • 1974
    1-2-3-4

    1-2-3-4

    1-2-3-4

    91974HD

    This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become...

    1-2-3-4