Bill Etra Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Beach Blanket Armageddon

While performers Frankie and Annette are going new wave and even punk, they find out that the old tunes and attitudes are not completely washed away.

Beach Blanket Armageddon

Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

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

Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

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Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

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A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).

Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

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Tales from Beneath the Sheets

Reclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation". Visual effects done on the Rutt-Etra synthesizer.

Tales from Beneath the Sheets

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Narcissicon

A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.

Lady of the Lake

Made by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."

Abstractions on a Bedsheet

Bill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control. Bill said that the climax took as long as the rest of the piece to compose and program.

Abstractions on a Bedsheet

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Heartbeat

An early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.

Mars: An Optic Aspic

Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka. The 16mm film added some unexpected and welcome color effects that lend themselves to the composition and the choice was made to leave them in.

Laser Quantum L

An early work by Bill and Louise Etra.

Avalon

Avalon is a real-time animation made to demonstrate the possibilities of Bill Etra's prototype digital video synthesizer that he, at the time, called "The New Machine". Set to Django Reinhardt's "Avalon".

Ms. Muffet

Computer/ video interface piece by Bill and Louise Etra with Dr. Lou Katz.

How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's

"A substantial late work by Bill Etra". A "fast version" also exists.

How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's

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Tales from Beneath the Sheets

Reclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation". Visual effects done on the Rutt-Etra synthesizer.