Steina Vasulka Movies

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

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

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

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

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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