Ernest Gusella Movies

Gusella's title creates a pun on the term video "tape" by using a split screen in which one half is the electronic negative of the other. Gusella set...

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 "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among...

Bending Diogenes is a lamentation on modern "siphilization," with its promises and dreams for a bigger and better life. It questions modern man's...

No Commercial Potential is composed of 19 separate video performance works. Each piece utilizes some aspect of video processing; From the playful to...

A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.

Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.

An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.

Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980

A sutra with a slant, with backing vocals by the Zen Tabernacle Choir. This tape depicts and describes how Japan economically bamboozled the United...

Paste yourself up to look like a Cubist painting, chant a rose is a rose is a rose through a synthesizer, and before you know it all your friends...

CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping...

What Under The Sun? is a private view of Mexico and it's history up to the present, loosely based on Bernal Diaz's account of Cortez's Conquest of...