Ernest Gusella Trailers
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Most Popular Ernest Gusella Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
The Commission Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each of the eleven segments of this "electronic opera", different effects are used.
Art Punks Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Art Punks is a song directly attacking the antics of famous conceptual body artists of the day.
Iris Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.
Facial Treatments #2 and #4 Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980
No Commercial Potential (Collected Works 1974 - 1978) Trailer (1978)
31 December 1978
No Commercial Potential is composed of 19 separate video performance works. Each piece utilizes some aspect of video processing; From the playful to the aggressive, Gusella's early works in the medium are notable.
Video-Taping Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
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.
Connecticut Papoose Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping and dreaming.
Nihon Kara Kita Trailer (1976)
20 April 1976
A sutra with a slant, with backing vocals by the Zen Tabernacle Choir. This tape depicts and describes how Japan economically bamboozled the United States in retaliation for dropping the A-Bomb.
Dude Defending A Stare-Case Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.
Bending Diogenes Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Bending Diogenes is a lamentation on modern "siphilization," with its promises and dreams for a bigger and better life.
What Under the Sun? Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
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 the Aztecs.
Arrows Trailer (1978)
22 August 1978
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 will begin to avoid you.
Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.
Exquisite Corpse Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
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 a group; each person draws one section of a body on the folded segment without looking at the other sides.
Vere D'he Go? Trailer (1978)
16 April 1978
A playful reference to vertigo in the title Vere d’he Go Composition announces a more vigorous attempt at spatial disorientation using again the striped sticks and now vertical wipes.
