Movies
- 1974
Video-Taping
Video-Taping01974HD
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...
- 1983
The Commission
The Commission01983HD
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...
- 1978
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse01978HD
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...
- 1983
Bending Diogenes
Bending Diogenes01983HD
Bending Diogenes is a lamentation on modern "siphilization," with its promises and dreams for a bigger and better life. It questions modern man's...
- 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...
- 1974
Dude Defending A Stare-Case
Dude Defending A Stare-Case01974HD
A feedback homage to the works of Duchamp.
- 1974
Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again
Playing Catch and Playing Catch Again01974HD
Two early experiments from Ernest Gusella.
- 1979
Iris
Iris01979HD
An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.
- 1977
Facial Treatments #2 and #4
Facial Treatments #2 and #401977HD
Video art by Ernest Gusella made between 1975 and 1980
- 1976
Nihon Kara Kita
Nihon Kara Kita01976HD
A sutra with a slant, with backing vocals by the Zen Tabernacle Choir. This tape depicts and describes how Japan economically bamboozled the United...
- 1978
Arrows
Arrows01978HD
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...
- 1981
Connecticut Papoose
Connecticut Papoose01981HD
CONNECTICUT PAPOOSE is conceived a surrealist tract, with references to Lautremont, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton and to surrealist images of sleeping...
- 1984
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...