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
  • 1964
    The Whaling Station

    The Whaling Station

    The Whaling Station

    01964HD

    short documentary film on an Icelandic whaling station

    The Whaling Station
  • 2020
    The Vasulka Effect

    The Vasulka Effect

    The Vasulka Effect

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    The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same...

    The Vasulka Effect
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Odjezd branců

    Odjezd branců

    Odjezd branců

    01970HD

    Odjezd branců
  • 1974
    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

    01974HD

    Short experimental film by Steina, Woody Vasulka

    Heraldic View
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 1989
    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

    01989HD

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider's gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The...

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    01980HD

    Short film.

    Artifacts
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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