Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Progeny is a collaboration with sculptor Bradford Smith. Smith's organic and sensual sculptural forms are transformed by the merging of one of...

A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video...

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

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

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

The work is inspired by the surrealist René Magritte's unsettling painting La Legende doree, depicting French baguettes flitting in a window...

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,...

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

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...