Steina Vasulka Movies

  • 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
  • 1974
    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    51974HD

    C-Trend
  • 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
  • 1970
    Discs

    Discs

    Discs

    01970HD

    In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

    Discs
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    01973HD

    Vocabulary
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives

    01996HD

    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
  • 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
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 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
  • 1982
    Somersault

    Somersault

    Somersault

    01982HD

    Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space...

    Somersault
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Telc

    Telc

    Telc

    01974HD

    Telc
  • 2002
    Music in the Afternoon

    Music in the Afternoon

    Music in the Afternoon

    02002HD

    Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title....

    Music in the Afternoon