Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 "remix" of Hollis Frampton's film Artificial Light.

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

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

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

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,...

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic...