Steina Vasulka Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

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

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

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

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

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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

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...

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...