Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 1983
    The Commission

    The Commission

    The Commission

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    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
  • 1996
    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

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    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
  • 1974
    Noisefields

    Noisefields

    Noisefields

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    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
  • 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
  • 1973
    Golden Voyage

    Golden Voyage

    Golden Voyage

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    The work is inspired by the surrealist René Magritte's unsettling painting La Legende doree, depicting French baguettes flitting in a window...

    Golden Voyage
  • 1970
    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

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    Sexmachine
  • 1974
    Matrix II

    Matrix II

    Matrix II

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

    Matrix II
  • 1974
    Telc

    Telc

    Telc

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    Telc
  • 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    In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...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
  • 1969
    Evolution

    Evolution

    Evolution

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    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
  • 1972
    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

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    Real time development of a video feedback, processed and controlled through a video keyer. Sound results from video signals, interfaced with audio...

    Distant Activities
  • 1970
    Tissues

    Tissues

    Tissues

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    In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is...

    Tissues
  • 1977
    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

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

    Orbital Obsessions
  • 1980
    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

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

    Cantaloup
  • 1986
    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

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

    Voice Windows
  • 1981
    Progeny

    Progeny

    Progeny

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

    Progeny
  • 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
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

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    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 1974
    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    C-Trend

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    C-Trend
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

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    Vocabulary