Steina Vasulka Movies

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

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title....

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

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

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

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

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

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

This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

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

Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space...