Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

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    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 1983
    The Commission

    The Commission

    The Commission

    01983HD

    This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

    The Commission
  • 1971
    Participation

    Participation

    Participation

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    This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the...

    Participation
  • 1986
    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

    01986HD

    With Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface

    Voice Windows
  • 1974
    The Matter

    The Matter

    The Matter

    01974HD

    The image and sound are being simultaneously generated from a single source, which at the same time shapes the visual pattern as well as electronic...

    The Matter
  • 1970
    Discs

    Discs

    Discs

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    In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

    Discs
  • 1974
    Soundsize

    Soundsize

    Soundsize

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    Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated...

    Soundsize
  • 1970
    Interface

    Interface

    Interface

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

    Interface
  • 1974
    Noisefields

    Noisefields

    Noisefields

    01974HD

    This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate...

    Noisefields
  • 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
  • 1970
    Thierry

    Thierry

    Thierry

    01970HD

    One of the works assembled in the series Sketches. These early sketches, created not without the irony, examine ways of manipulating the video image....

    Thierry
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

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    Artifacts
  • 1978
    Vasulka Video: Steina

    Vasulka Video: Steina

    Vasulka Video: Steina

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    In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. In the...

    Vasulka Video: Steina
  • 1974
    Solo for 3

    Solo for 3

    Solo for 3

    01974HD

    In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial,...

    Solo for 3
  • 1976
    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

    Switch! Monitor! Drift!

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    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!
  • 1978
    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

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

    Vasulka Video
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    01970HD

    Sexmachine
  • 1981
    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

    01981HD

    This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe...

    In Search of the Castle