Ernest Gusella Movies

  • 1983
    The Commission

    The Commission

    The Commission

    01983HD

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

    The Commission
  • 1974
    Video-Taping

    Video-Taping

    Video-Taping

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    Gusella's title creates a pun on the term video "tape" by using a split screen in which one half is the electronic negative of the other. Gusella set...

    Video-Taping
  • 1981
    Connecticut Papoose

    Connecticut Papoose

    Connecticut Papoose

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    CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping...

    Connecticut Papoose
  • 1978
    Exquisite Corpse

    Exquisite Corpse

    Exquisite Corpse

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    The "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among...

    Exquisite Corpse
  • 1978
    Arrows

    Arrows

    Arrows

    01978HD

    Paste yourself up to look like a Cubist painting, chant a rose is a rose is a rose through a synthesizer, and before you know it all your friends...

    Arrows
  • 1979
    Iris

    Iris

    Iris

    01979HD

    An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.

    Iris
  • 1983
    Bending Diogenes

    Bending Diogenes

    Bending Diogenes

    01983HD

    Bending Diogenes is a lamentation on modern "siphilization," with its promises and dreams for a bigger and better life. It questions modern man's...

    Bending Diogenes
  • 1978
    No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978)

    No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978)

    No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978)

    01978HD

    No Commercial Potential is composed of 19 separate video performance works. Each piece utilizes some aspect of video processing; From the playful to...

    No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978)
  • 1974
    Dude Defending A Stare-Case

    Dude Defending A Stare-Case

    Dude Defending A Stare-Case

    01974HD

    A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.

    Dude Defending A Stare-Case
  • 1974
    Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again

    Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again

    Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again

    01974HD

    Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.

    Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again
  • 1977
    Facial Treatments #2 and #4

    Facial Treatments #2 and #4

    Facial Treatments #2 and #4

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    Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980

    Facial Treatments #2 and #4
  • 1976
    Nihon Kara Kita

    Nihon Kara Kita

    Nihon Kara Kita

    01976HD

    A sutra with a slant, with backing vocals by the Zen Tabernacle Choir. This tape depicts and describes how Japan economically bamboozled the United...

    Nihon Kara Kita
  • 1984
    What Under the Sun?

    What Under the Sun?

    What Under the Sun?

    01984HD

    What Under The Sun? is a private view of Mexico and it's history up to the present, loosely based on Bernal Diaz's account of Cortez's Conquest of...

    What Under the Sun?