Steina Vasulka Movies

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic...

Matrix II explores the properties of images and sounds in the medium of video. Geometric shapes travel across a ‘matrix’ (grid) of...

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

This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the...

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,...

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

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...

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

A "remix" of Hollis Frampton's film Artificial Light.

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

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

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

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

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

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

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...

This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate...

B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

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