Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. In the...

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

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