Steina Vasulka Movies

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial,...

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...

This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the...

Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated...

An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its...

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

Steina trained as a classical violinist, pushing her experience as a professional musician into the electronic realm with this seminal work....

Although the video artwork Evolution cites the well-known image of hominid evolution, it is more interested in the evolution of the media than in the...

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

The Multikeyer and Scan Processor are used for creating the pulsating abstract composition showing six different cases of audio-video interface with...

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

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

In Warp, Steina makes use of her two favourite features of the Image/ine software, written by Tom Demeyer. The first feature –...

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

In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is...