Woody Vasulka Movies

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

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

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...

The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45...

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

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

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic...

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

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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...

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...

A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video...

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations,...

This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become...

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

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

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

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...