Steina Vasulka Movies

  • 1980
    Selected Treecuts

    Selected Treecuts

    Selected Treecuts

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    “Selected Treecuts” is a formal examination of the distinction between camera-generated and digital images, and a layered juxtaposition...

    Selected Treecuts
  • 1982
    Somersault

    Somersault

    Somersault

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    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
  • 1977
    Flux

    Flux

    Flux

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    In Flux, Steina films a river from a wide angle, deforming the image to the point of creating a sort of radiating, aqueous ball - like a liquid...

    Flux
  • 1997
    Orka

    Orka

    Orka

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    STEINA: “My background is in music. For me, it is the sound that leads me into the image. Every image has its own sound and in it I attempt to...

    Orka
  • 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
    Thierry

    Thierry

    Thierry

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    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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

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    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 1977
    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

    Orbital Obsessions

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

    Orbital Obsessions
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

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    Vocabulary
  • 1974
    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    C-Trend

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    C-Trend
  • 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
  • 1975
    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

    Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

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    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
  • 1978
    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

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

    Vasulka Video
  • 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
  • 2002
    Music in the Afternoon

    Music in the Afternoon

    Music in the Afternoon

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1975
    Floor to Walls to Ceiling

    Floor to Walls to Ceiling

    Floor to Walls to Ceiling

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    electro / opto / mechanical / environment

    Floor to Walls to Ceiling
  • 1989
    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls

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    In the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider's gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The...

    In the Land of the Elevator Girls