Woody Vasulka Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

Short experimental film by Steina, Woody Vasulka

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

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

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,...

Short film.

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...

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...

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...

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