Steina Vasulka Movies

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. In the...

One of the works assembled in the series Sketches. These early sketches, created not without the irony, examine ways of manipulating the video image....

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...

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

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated...

“Selected Treecuts” is a formal examination of the distinction between camera-generated and digital images, and a layered juxtaposition...

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations,...