The documentary film by Peter Kirby provides a comprehensive portrait of Steina and Woody Vasulka, since the late 1960s in New York, where they founded The Kitchen, to their final destination and home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Vasulkas explain their involvement with video and their relationship to technologies and art. The film was shot over a two-year period. It includes excerpts from the Vasulkas' video works, as well as other interviews. The documentary includes excerpts of the works: Violin Power (1970-1978): Steina Vasulka; Orbital Obsessions (1975-1977): Steina Vasulka; Participation (1970): Steina and Woody Vasulka; The Matter (1974): Woody Vasulka; C-Trends (1974): Woody Vasulka; Artifacts (1980): Woody Vasulka; Summer Salt (1982): Steina Vasulka; Allvision (1976): Steina Vasulka; The West (1983): Steina Vasulka; Geomania (1989): Steina Vasulka; Art of Memory (1987): Woody Vasulka; Theater of Hybrid Automata (1990): Woody Vasulka; The Bratherhood, Table III (1994): Woody Vasulka; Violin Power (1991): Steina Vasulka; In the Land of the Elevator Girls (1989): Steina Vasulka; Pyrogliphs (1995): Steina Vasulka

Author: Steina a Woody Vasulka

Co-author: Peter Kirby
(director)

Year: 1997

Artistic medium: documentary

Performer: Steina Vasulka
Woody Vasulka

References: BAROK, Dušan. Steina and Woody Vasulka. Monoskop.org [online] URL
The Daniel Langlois Foundation. CR+D / Document. Video document / Documentary / Report [online] URL
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Peter Kirby. Binary Lives [online] URL