Woody Vasulka Movies

  • 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
  • 1981
    Progeny

    Progeny

    Progeny

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    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
    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
  • 1970
    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

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    Sexmachine
  • 1980
    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

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    Short film.

    Artifacts
  • 1972
    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

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

    Distant Activities
  • 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
  • 1983
    The Commission

    The Commission

    The Commission

    01983HD

    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
  • 1974
    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    C-Trend

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    C-Trend
  • 1974
    1-2-3-4

    1-2-3-4

    1-2-3-4

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    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
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 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
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

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    Vocabulary
  • 1970
    Old Lady El Toppo

    Old Lady El Toppo

    Old Lady El Toppo

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    A 3-minute study of a wrinkle-faced old woman by one or both of the Vasulkas, produced late-career.

    Old Lady El Toppo
  • 1980
    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

    Cantaloup

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    Cantaloup is an informal documentary on the Vasulkas' Digital Image Articulator, an imaging device they designed with Jeffrey Schier. Using a...

    Cantaloup
  • 1973
    Scan Processor Studies

    Scan Processor Studies

    Scan Processor Studies

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    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...

    Scan Processor Studies
  • 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
  • 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!
  • 1981
    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

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    This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe...

    In Search of the Castle
  • 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