Movies: Ernest Gusella

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. Fascin...

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

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 ...

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....

CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping and dreaming. Throughout the tape, unrelated images and ideas are juxtaposed as they might be in a su...

Repeating, erratic zooms on Gusella's face....

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 up a glass sheet and suspended it from light poles. The glass was covered with black or white tape. ...

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....

Bending Diogenes is a lamentation on modern "siphilization," with its promises and dreams for a bigger and better life. It questions modern man's motives and conditions, while introducing the teachings of Diogenes, the founder of the Cynic School of ...

A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp....

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. Very popular with all of my Japanese friends....

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. The work was initiated by a desire to apply electronic stream of consciousness techniques, ...

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. The sounds are both natural (zoom le...

Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella....

Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980...