Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 1972
    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    01972HD

    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
    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
  • 1971
    Participation

    Participation

    Participation

    01971HD

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

    Participation
  • 1970
    Tissues

    Tissues

    Tissues

    01970HD

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

    Tissues
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    02006HD

    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
  • 1973
    Golden Voyage

    Golden Voyage

    Golden Voyage

    01973HD

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

    Golden Voyage
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
    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
  • 1974
    Telc

    Telc

    Telc

    01974HD

    Telc
  • 2020
    The Vasulka Effect

    The Vasulka Effect

    The Vasulka Effect

    12020HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 1987
    Art of Memory

    Art of Memory

    Art of Memory

    61987HD

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

    Art of Memory
  • 1970
    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    01970HD

    Sexmachine