Steina Vasulka Movies

  • 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
  • 1980
    Selected Treecuts

    Selected Treecuts

    Selected Treecuts

    01980HD

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

    Selected Treecuts
  • 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
  • 1978
    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    Vasulka Video

    01978HD

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

    Vasulka Video
  • 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
    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    Calligrams

    01970HD

    A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

    Calligrams
  • 1972
    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    Distant Activities

    61972HD

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

    Distant Activities
  • 1977
    Flux

    Flux

    Flux

    01977HD

    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
  • 1970
    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    Sexmachine

    01970HD

    Sexmachine
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    02006HD

    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
  • 1986
    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

    Voice Windows

    01986HD

    With Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface

    Voice Windows
  • 1973
    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    Vocabulary

    01973HD

    Vocabulary
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1981
    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

    In Search of the Castle

    01981HD

    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
  • 1974
    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    C-Trend

    51974HD

    C-Trend
  • 1997
    Orka

    Orka

    Orka

    01997HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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!