Bill Etra Movies
- 2017
Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory
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A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond...
- 1973
Grumbles
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"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"
- 1978
Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video
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This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.
- 1973
Narcissicon
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A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.
- 1980
Beach Blanket Armageddon
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While performers Frankie and Annette are going new wave and even punk, they find out that the old tunes and attitudes are not completely washed away.
- 1974
Lady of the Lake
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Made by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."
- 2005
Avalon
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Avalon is a real-time animation made to demonstrate the possibilities of Bill Etra's prototype digital video synthesizer that he, at the time, called...
- 2016
How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's
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"A substantial late work by Bill Etra". A "fast version" also exists.
- 1973
Heartbeat
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An early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.
- 1975
Ms. Muffet
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Computer/ video interface piece by Bill and Louise Etra with Dr. Lou Katz.
- 1973
Tales from Beneath the Sheets
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Reclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation"....
- 1972
Laser Quantum L
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An early work by Bill and Louise Etra.
- 1973
Abstractions on a Bedsheet
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Bill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control. Bill said that the climax...
- 1972
Mars: An Optic Aspic
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Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody...