Bill Etra Movie Trailers

Heartbeat Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

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

Avalon Trailer (2005)

01 December 2005

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".

Lady of the Lake Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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

Laser Quantum L Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

An early work by Bill and Louise Etra.

Mars: An Optic Aspic Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

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.

Abstractions on a Bedsheet Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Bill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control.

Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory Trailer (2017)

20 April 2017

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).

Street Scenes 1970 Trailer (1970)

14 September 1970

Two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.