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Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: This first 16mm film made after graduate school, and also my last. Coyote Tracks culminates my interest in Semiotics and the exploration of cinema as a linguistic system. Each shot represents a single “pictograph” in a sentence describing a narrative journey. Shot in New Mexico and featuring a cast of old friends.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/08/2019
Date Created:: 1986
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Companion/sequal to "Lota’ Burger" produced a few days later, and under the same circumstances. This tape uses a similar methodology, this time with a moving camera, shot from a car, and a more complex series of overlapping wipes. Produced at Eve Muir Studios.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1988
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: An early experiment with time based correction and the ability to mix two tapes together, as well as one of the few projects in which I worked with an online editor who operated the controls at my direction. This tape features two versions of the same image (shot in Santa Fe) slightly staggered in time and then wiped over each other. Edited at Eve Muir studio by Trevor Long. I was paying for the studio time to edit a project for LANL and was able to squeeze extra time in to edit two videos, this one and San Mateo Drive.
Creator/Author:: Long, Trevor and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1988
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: My first attempt at a multi-channel video installation. The work was highly influenced by Nam June Paik’s retrospective at the Whitney and by Steina Vasulka’s “The West”. This piece was produced while I was living and working at the Vasulka’s House/Studio in Santa Fe. I had persuaded them to let me house sit while they spent six months in Japan. Access to their equipment, particularly to 4 adjacent monitors and four ¾” video decks, was what made it possible to compose a multi image work. “Virtual Space” was originally an eight channel work, mounted as two 2X2 stacks of monitors facing each other across a narrow space. Standing in the middle, the viewer had to look back and forth between the two sides. One side (L) is an assembly of footage gathered at the Lightning Field (a land art project in southern New Mexico by artist Walter Di Maria.) The other side (V) features four views of the interior of the Vasulka’s live/work interior as a handheld camera slowly and continuously pans across interior surfaces in the space. Subsequently, each of the 2x2 grids of images composing the two sides (L&V) was transferred to a single tape. These are represented here as LX4 and Vx4.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/18/2019
Date Created:: 1989
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Produced almost entirely at Experimental Television Center (ETC), the video uses a simple animation of a rotating rectangle (produced in Deluxe Paint on the Amiga Computer) as a stencil into which are keyed various versions of a processed live image of the river outside the window at ETC. This was my second attempt at a multi channel piece. The four programs have been shown in grid’s of twelve and sixteen monitors. While relatively simple in structure and shown only three times, this remains a personal favorite.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/18/2019
Date Created:: 1991
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: My reaction to the Gulf War and the continuing transformation of war coverage into media spectacle. Edited at PPG and an early exploration of the Ampex ADO-1000 Digital Video Effects unit.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1991
License:: All rights reserved

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A mostly formal exercise in composition and image processing, using footage of water. Probably the first in a ongoing series of works dealing with landscape, investigating the idea of video as a contemplative viewing experience akin to painting. Filmed in California and Mexico, and developed over the course of two visits to Experimental Television Center. Final editing at PPG onto 1” open reel tape.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1992

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: My first multi channel work for synchronized video streams. The piece starts in Cape Cod and moves gradually across the North American continent, ending at the Pacific Ocean. There is no attempt to cover all this of ground in any complete way - the work is an assembly of the places I traveled to and landscapes I admired during the four-year period in which I collected the material. All the scenes were shot with a single camera, then staggered in editing to create the appearance of a continuous shot. During filming I would pan, pause, and then move again, resulting in a series of staggered movements in which the different screens appear to drift in and out of synchronization.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2004

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A meditation/celebration of the Spaghetti Western and the pornography of violence. An homage to Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. Copies of scenes from the original films, rented on VHS, were edited into a compilation reel. That material was processed at ETC, where Scott Davenport also added the text layer. Several versions of that were edited at PPG in an additive process, A+B=1 C+D=2, then 1+2= X, to create a ‘’final” hour-long version. The shorter “ sit down version was then created from that material.
Creator/Author:: Davenport, Scott and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1992

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A collection of images and sounds from television cop shows is interwoven with texts (selected by Scott Davenport) taken from pulp detective stories, the literary predecessor of the same genre.
Creator/Author:: Davenport, Scott and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1996

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