Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 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
  • 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!
  • 1981
    Progeny

    Progeny

    Progeny

    01981HD

    Progeny is a collaboration with sculptor Bradford Smith. Smith's organic and sensual sculptural forms are transformed by the merging of one of...

    Progeny
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    01980HD

    Artifacts
  • 1975
    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    71975HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Soundsize

    Soundsize

    Soundsize

    01974HD

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

    Soundsize
  • 1970
    Old Lady El Toppo

    Old Lady El Toppo

    Old Lady El Toppo

    01970HD

    A 3-minute study of a wrinkle-faced old woman by one or both of the Vasulkas, produced late-career.

    Old Lady El Toppo
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Matrix II

    Matrix II

    Matrix II

    01974HD

    Matrix II explores the properties of images and sounds in the medium of video. Geometric shapes travel across a ‘matrix’ (grid) of...

    Matrix II