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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

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    Artifacts
  • 1974
    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

    Heraldic View

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    Short experimental film by Steina, Woody Vasulka

    Heraldic View
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 1978
    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

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    This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

    Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video
  • 1974
    Soundsize

    Soundsize

    Soundsize

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

    Soundsize
  • 1974
    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

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    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
  • 1971
    Participation

    Participation

    Participation

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

    Participation
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

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    Vocabulary
  • 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
    Odjezd branců

    Odjezd branců

    Odjezd branců

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    Odjezd branců
  • 1974
    Soundgated Images

    Soundgated Images

    Soundgated Images

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    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
    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
  • 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
    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