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Bird Rock

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Filmed at Headlands National Monument during my 2015 residency, looking west at dusk.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Goat Rock Beach

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Filmed on a trip north during my 2015 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Shot near where the Russian river meets the Pacific.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: An ecstatic chant to the rising of the sun. Sound and image are juxtaposed and find moments of synchronicity, while remaining parallel and separate. Time rushes forward slowly. Narrative is all and nothing. Left over material from "Blooms" was adjusted to accompany Chris Bailey’s music.
Creator/Author:: Sukato; Woodman, Charles; Meitar Ensemble, and Bailey, Chris
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 02/21/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO saVant Presents Lateral Thinking at Autumedia (Performance Documentation)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: I was commissioned by Andy Marko of Semantics Gallery in Cincinnati to create a live show as the concluding event for his annual Autumedia Festival. The space at Semantics was filled with other work in the show, so he approached Third Party, another artist run space down the street, to host the performance. I sent a general call out to friends at CCM looking for improvising musicians with the idea of forming a fairly large ensemble. I had a a number of responses and the musical group was ultimately made up of Regan Brown (Bass Clarinet), Dave McDonnell (Sax and Electronics), Carrie Magin (Percussion), Steve Weimer (Keyboard), and Zach Larabee (Drums). I also invited Loraine Wible, former student and previous collaborator, with Discerning Crane, to contribute a second stream of images. When we got to the space I decided to throw Loraine's images obliquely across the long wall with mine in the center.
Creator/Author:: Brown, Regan; Weimer, Steve; Woodman, Charles; Magin, Carrie; Larabee, Zach, and McDonnell, Dave
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

Dance Tracks

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Compilation of various short treatments of material featuring dancers and set to music. Primarily choreography by Brooke Kidd, Washington DC, Yee Jen Bao, Norman, OK and Judith Mikita, Cincinnati OH, all processed at the Experimental Television Center.
Creator/Author:: Kidd, Brooke and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 1992
License:: All rights reserved

Poison (Acid Mix)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A meditation on pollution. Based on treatments of footage I produced and shot for the Los Alamos National Labs on the subject of Radioactive Waste Water Treatment.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 1991
License:: All rights reserved

Pumpkin Heart

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Performance by Carl Stewart. Carl wears a suit made of Camel packs, all of which he smoked. Filmed in the garden at his house in Rye, NY, wearing a pumpkin head which he grew. Inspired by Marlon Brando’s portrayal of the death of Vito Corleone. Dearly loved by me, this video exists somewhere outside of my other artworks and was never publicly exhibited.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Stewart, Carl
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 03/12/2019
Date Created:: 1983-03-06
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO sAVant vs. duo B. at Center for New Music

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Live audio visual improvisation with duo B. on September 26, 2018 at Center for New Music in San Francisco, CA.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2019
Date Modified:: 03/14/2019
Date Created:: 2018-09-26
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO sAVant vs. duo B. at Shapeshifters Cinema

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Live audio visual improvisation with duo B. on December 19, 2018 at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2019
Date Modified:: 03/14/2019
Date Created:: 2018-12-19
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO saVAnt at SF Cinematheque

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Live audio visual improvisation on 05/3/2015 at SF Cinematheque, Center 4 New Music, San Francisco
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/18/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Luce dal Cielo

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Filmed at Headlands National Monument during my 2015 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Late afternoon fog on the lagoon.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Phoenecia

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A few views of water and trees from my month long stay in Phoenecia, NY. This video utilizes an editing technique (a sort of continuous slow horizontal slide) that I conceptualized for more than a year. After several failed attempts I finally figured out how to make it work.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Roman Spa

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Filmed at the hot springs resort of the same name in Calistoga, CA.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Wavelength 3.17

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: The original material for this video was produced during a residency at Signal Culture in 2014 using three oscillators. The output of the first two was mixed by keying those images into portions of the output of a third. Subsequently, that footage was slowed down to about 10% of the original speed. During my stay at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2015, I was struck by similarities between this material and the sound work of Brian Chase, another Artist in Residence there. This video is the result of an experiment in juxtaposing my video with Chase's sound work.
Creator/Author:: Chase, Brian and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Wiggle

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Short loop produced at a Signal Culture artists residency in 2014. Made using the newly built, Nam Jun Paik designed, Wobulator. Produced by sending the output of the oscillator to the Paik Abe Wobulator, with the raster on that device collapsed. This image was then filmed off the screen. "Wiggle" was created in response to an invitation to show a short silent work at Peephole Cinema in San Francisco. In the end, they Peephole Cinema elected to show an excerpt from "Roman Spa."
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO saVant Presents Lateral Thinking at 21C Museum/Hotel (Performance Documentation)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Performance organized in conjunction with Passages, my one-person show at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati. Suzanna Barnes (violin) Regan Brown (winds & autoharp) Zach Larabee (percussion) David McDonnell (electronics & horns) Loraine Wible (images) Charles Woodman (images)
Creator/Author:: Brown, Regan; Woodman, Charles; Wible, Loraine; Barnes, Suzanna; Larabee, Zach, and McDonnell, Dave
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2014
License:: All rights reserved

Wavelength 4 Lightgeist

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A cameraless video, made by mixing analog waveforms, with some additional digital processing. Produced at Signal Culture, 2014.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/07/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2014
License:: All rights reserved

Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst at MATA Festival

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Documentation of live performance of the music with cinema accompaniment. Performed by Meitar Ensemble as part of MATA Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn. Shot from an audience members' cell phone.
Creator/Author:: Sukato; Woodman, Charles; Meitar Ensemble, and Bailey, Chris
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/29/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

St. Vrain's Woods

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Shot at the Ceran St. Vrain Trailhead and campground, near Jamestown, Colorado. St. Vrain’s Woods was inspired by Seurat among others. An exploration of the elasticity of time, it is a moving picture made only of still images and the spaces between them. A portrait of a place and a moment.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2013
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO saVant at Albright-Knox Art Gallery 2013 (Performance Documentation)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Video by viDEO sAVant. Music by The Ubudis Quartet. The Ubudis Quartet combines Mexican guitarist Omar Tamez with Buffalo-based musicians Steve Baczkowski (saxophones, clarinets, and ethnic woodwinds), Jonathan Golove (electric cello), and John Bacon (percussion). Performed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, this video presents a five minute edited sample of the Live Cinema performance.
Creator/Author:: Baczkowski, Steve; Bacon, John; Tamez, Omar; Woodman, Charles; Golove, Jonathan, and Ubudis Quartet
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2013
License:: All rights reserved

Spiders Wheels (Shrimp Mix)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Video edited to match the music by guitarist/composer Val Opielski. Intended to act as a demo for a proposed appearance as performing duo.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Opielski, Val
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

Table of Elements 7 Minute Sample

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Short version with brief excerpts from the longer 150 minute work.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

Table of Elements Installed at University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Documentation of the installation and of reactions to the work by people in the the hospital waiting room. Interviews by Melissa Godoy.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Godoy, Melissa
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2014
License:: All rights reserved

Blooms

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A precursor to "Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst." Shot in the backyard of my house on Riddle Rd in Cincinnati, and upstairs in my studio. The hibiscus flowers take about an hour to open starting just at daylight. The flowers were filmed in realtime and subsequently sped up.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/07/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2013
License:: All rights reserved

Arvo's Clouds

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Commissioned by the Concert Nova chamber music group in Cincinnati. I created this image to accompany a performance of "Fratres" by Arvo Part. The recording used on this version is by Kronos Quartet.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2010
License:: All rights reserved

Heaven

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: The images for "Heaven" were produced at the Experimental TV Center. Nicholas Economos and I shared part of the residency and he helped me develop this complex patch using both the Jones Frame Buffer and Jones Keyer with a slow oscillator varying the amount of “trails” we see at any one time.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Economos, Nicholas
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2009
License:: All rights reserved

Vox Baleanae

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: I was commissioned by Concert Nova to produce this viual accompaniment to the score by George Crumb. Images were shot at the Monterey Aquarium. Music: George Crumb, "Vox Baleanae," 1971
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2009
License:: All rights reserved

Burner

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: These images were created to accompany the music track by Odd Nosdam, with whom I had done a few live shows that year in San Francisco and one a few years earlier at VOLK in Cincinnati. I admire the distorted and gritty feel of the track and developed an image treatment which worked well with that texture.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Odd Nosdam
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2007
License:: All rights reserved

Spring's Mix Demo

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Three part work created for my exhibition at Shirley Jones Gallery in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Features dance treatments from Experimental Television Center, as well as footage from my backyard on Riddle Rd in Cincinnati. The piece was projected onto the store front windows of the gallery.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2006
License:: All rights reserved

American Diorama 5 Minute Sample

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
License:: All rights reserved

American Diorama Installed at El Camino Medical Center

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 compete 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. Installed at El Camino Medical Center in Mountain View, California.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/05/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2007
License:: All rights reserved

I Morti Installation Documentation (Weston Art Gallery)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: I was fascinated by the photos on gravestones in the Cemetery at San Minato in Florence, Italy. I began to think about the way in which a single image came to represent the entire lived experience of the person. Cinema as a whole also seems to be about representations of actions. I wondered about trying to film an experience directly lived as opposed to being represented. "I Morti" presents four streams of diary footage, images of daily life and travel. Collected over a 4 or 5 year period, these function as a counterpoint to the images of the dead on the fifth screen.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2002
License:: All rights reserved

Palimpsest

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: The term "palimpsest" refers to a text which has been written upon two or three times, but whose lines have been imperfectly erased, so that different layers of all the texts are visible and mix together.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2001
License:: All rights reserved

Quique (Pais, Country)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Collaboration with Poet/Performer Enrique Aviles. This video has its origins as a part of the “video set” for a performance by Aviles, directed by Davis Chung. In the theatrical piece Aviles played the roles of two immigrants to the US (one Mexican and one Korean) who live on opposite sides of a rooming house in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in DC. Subsequently, Aviles and I decided to create a stand alone video using one of his poems. The original footage of the neighborhood was supplemented with images of graffiti he produced and a shot of him reciting the poem in the backyard of his house in Arlington, VA.
Creator/Author:: Aviles, Enrique (poetry); Airirang Korean Music and Dance Ensemble (music), and Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1996
License:: All rights reserved

Baltimore Overpass (Demo)

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Produced while I was living in Washington DC. This is a meditation on highway architecture and the view from moving cars, subjects that have long been dear to me. Shot on Hi8 with footage processed at ETC and in my studio using the Amiga computer.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/23/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1994
License:: All rights reserved

Cowboy Romance '92 Remix

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
License:: All rights reserved

Drift (Demo)

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
License:: All rights reserved

National Sport

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

Lota' Burger

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

San Mateo Drive

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

Pi Squared

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Created to accompany a composition by Christopher Bailey, HK2. All the images are appropriated from the film “Pi” by Darren Aronofsky.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and Bailey, Chris
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2010
License:: All rights reserved

Snow Mountain Ranch

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Snow Mountain Ranch is a meditation on the elasticity of time and the veracity of representation. The focus is on careful observation and on a tension between the static and the dynamic. Shot from the patio of my hotel room at a YMCA Resort located just down the road from Camp Chief Ouray in Granby, Colorado, where I spent two summers a boy. The video begins as a single continuous take. We are witness to two unfolding narratives, happening at very different scales, the action of the weather and that of the cowboys. Both the movements of the sky and the action on the ground have been accelerated but not always to the same degree.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

Owego Wheatgrass Wiper

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Shot from the village park along the river during my first residency at Signal Culture (Owego, NY).
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2015
License:: All rights reserved

Plunder Squad

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
License:: All rights reserved

Dharma Pops

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A meditation on the pleasures of observation. Image music and text weave in a multi-layer dance. Images built around a pre-recorded soundtrack. Text: Jack Kerouac Music: Michael Fiday Image: Charles Woodman Performers: Carla Kihlsteadt, Graeme Jennings (violins) Narration: Matthias Bassi
Creator/Author:: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969; Bassi, Matthias; Jennings, Graeme; Kihlsteadt, Carla; Woodman, Charles, and Fiday, Michael
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 2014
License:: All rights reserved

Remnants

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A 16mm film produced while I was graduate student. An exploration of connections between film and language.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2016
Date Modified:: 05/07/2019
Date Created:: 1982
License:: All rights reserved

Coyote Tracks

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

Aspen

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: One of many attempts on my part to capture the magic motion of Aspen leaves, a fascination deeply embedded in memories of my childhood in Colorado. This footage was shot near Caribou, Colorado. The tape includes three different “episodes” which use a series image treatments and tricks, which further complicate the already complex motion of the leaves. The slow rate of change is such that no causal viewer will ever grasp the true dimensions of the work, beyond the surface image. This is a video which truly needs to contemplated as if it were a painting, installed in a space where it can be subjected to repeated viewing over a long period of time.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/08/2019
Date Created:: 2014
License:: All rights reserved

viDEO sAVant at New Genres Festival; Live Cinema Dance

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Edited excerpts of the performance documentation from 2/25/2012. Curator and long time viDEO sAVant supporter Steve Liggeitt, of Living Arts of Tulsa, paired the sAVant crew with a group of choreographer/dancers for this improvisational extravaganza.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/14/2016
Date Modified:: 05/08/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

Auto Auction

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Early Work - Filmed at Del City, Oklahoma auto auction
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/10/2019
Date Modified:: 05/10/2019
Date Created:: 1982
License:: All rights reserved

Virtual Space Demo

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Demo version of 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.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/06/2016
Date Modified:: 05/10/2019
Date Created:: 1989
License:: All rights reserved

Main Street

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Early Work
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/10/2019
Date Modified:: 05/10/2019
Date Created:: 1983
License:: All rights reserved

Mx Pdn

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Early Work- Installation/Performance Larry McSpadden
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/10/2019
Date Modified:: 05/10/2019
Date Created:: 1982
License:: All rights reserved

Role Model

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Early Work
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/11/2019
Date Modified:: 05/11/2019
Date Created:: 1982
License:: All rights reserved

Game Show

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Early Work
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/11/2019
Date Modified:: 05/11/2019
Date Created:: 1981
License:: All rights reserved

Drift

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, Developed over the course of two visits to ETC, Final editing at PPG onto 1” open reel tape.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/05/2016
Date Modified:: 05/12/2019
Date Created:: 1992
License:: All rights reserved

American Diorama

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: My first multi channel works 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 compete 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:: 04/04/2016
Date Modified:: 05/13/2019
Date Created:: 2004
License:: All rights reserved

Table of Elements

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Table of Elements was specifically conceived and designed for use in a health care environment. The ideal situation for this work is in a hospital waiting room, "Table of Elements" attempts to shift the viewer’s experience away from the typical mode of watching a moving image and towards a way of observation more akin to the way in which we view a painting. I’m interested in creating a tension between the static and the dynamic. Initially the work may at times appear unchanging, although never static, and the piece, which at first may seem like it can be absorbed in a single glance, gradually reveals new dimensions of itself over time, or through repeated encounters. The work is exhibited as a diptych, with two synchronized video loops displayed on two adjacent monitors.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/13/2019
Date Created:: 2012
License:: All rights reserved

I Morti

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: I was fascinated by the photos on gravestones in the Cemetery at San Minato in Florence, Italy. I began to think about the way in which a single image came to represent the entire lived experience of the person. Cinema as a whole also seems to be about representations of actions. I wondered about trying to film an experience directly lived as opposed to being represented. "I Morti" presents four streams of diary footage, images of daily life and travel. Collected over a 4 or 5 year period, these function as a counterpoint to the images of the dead on the fifth screen.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/05/2016
Date Modified:: 05/13/2019
Date Created:: 2002
License:: All rights reserved

Spring's Mix

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Three part work created for my exhibition at Shirley Jones Gallery in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Features dance treatments from Experimental Television Center, as well as footage from my backyard on Riddle Rd in Cincinnati. The piece was projected onto the store front windows of the gallery.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 03/15/2016
Date Modified:: 05/14/2019
Date Created:: 2006
License:: All rights reserved

Blue Bebop

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: A rough cut of work in progress
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/17/2019
Date Modified:: 05/17/2019
Date Created:: 2003
License:: All rights reserved

Baltimore Overpass

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Produced while I was living in Washington DC. This is a meditation on highway architecture and the view from moving cars, subjects that have long been dear to me. Shot on Hi8 with footage processed at ETC and in my studio using the Amiga computer.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 04/05/2016
Date Modified:: 05/17/2019
Date Created:: 1994
License:: All rights reserved

Under the Bridge

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

Virtual Space

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

viDEO sAVant with NWEMO All Stars

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: viDEO sAVant w/NWEAMO All Stars, NOTACON, Cleveland OH, Performance.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/20/2019
Date Modified:: 05/20/2019
Date Created:: 2010

viDEO sAVant at Living Arts Festival with Adam Tendler

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: John Cage: Sonata and Interludes, viDEO sAVant, images w/ Adam Tendler, piano. Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Performance.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/20/2019
Date Modified:: 05/20/2019
Date Created:: 2009

Candle Dancer

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Candle Dancer
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/20/2019
Date Modified:: 05/20/2019
Date Created:: 2003

Event Horizon

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Excerpts from a concert by SLURrr with viDEO sAVant, January 1994, Arlington Planetarium, Arlington Virginia
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/21/2019
Date Modified:: 05/21/2019
Date Created:: 2003

Nude Descending

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Featuring Jack Charney as the nude. All made with analog tools. Shot and mixed during the six months I lived and worked at the Vasulkas home/studio in Santa Fe. Two ¾” tapes of the nude were mixed through a key/stencil of third video (originally shot on 8mm film in Sienna Italy) to make one version of the combined images Video1+ Video2+stencil=A then this process was repeated Video1+Video2+stencil=B, then the combined images were mixed together again through the same stencil A+B+stencil=Mix1. This whole process was repeated twice and then those two were also combined. Then later some of those mixes were transferred to Betacam and slowed down. The final tape contains excerpts from a variety of the previous combinations with 2, 4 and 8 layers.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/21/2019
Date Modified:: 05/26/2019
Date Created:: 1992

Nude Descending Demo

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Six screen video installationFeaturing Jack Charney as the nude. All made with analog tools. Shot and mixed during the six months I lived and worked at the Vasulkas home/studio in Santa Fe. Two ¾” tapes of the nude were mixed through a key/stencil of third video (originally shot on 8mm film in Sienna Italy) to make one version of the combined images Video1+ Video2+stencil=A then this process was repeated Video1+Video2+stencil=B, then the combined images were mixed together again through the same stencil A+B+stencil=Mix1. This whole process was repeated twice and then those two were also combined. Then later some of those mixes were transferred to Betacam and slowed down. The final tape contains excerpts from a variety of the previous combinations with 2, 4 and 8 layers.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/21/2019
Date Modified:: 05/26/2019
Date Created:: 1992

The Mounds Tape

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: My first finished video, Made when I was an undergraduate at Antioch College. Shot and edited on ½” reel to reel B&W video.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2019
Date Modified:: 05/26/2019
Date Created:: 1978

ETC Dance Highlights

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Some highlights of various dance footage processed at the Experimental Television Center in the preceding years.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2019
Date Modified:: 05/27/2019
Date Created:: 2003

The Sporting Life

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Made as part of viDEO sAVant’s series of ambient videos for nightclubs, distributed by Telegenics.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2019
Date Modified:: 05/27/2019
Date Created:: 1993

Secret Laboratory

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Mixed and performed live at the Experimental Television Center in 1992 with a special appearance by Vanna White. Audio by Dub Syndicate "Tunes From the Missing Channel."
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2019
Date Modified:: 05/29/2019
Date Created:: 1992

viDEO sAVant and Nicholas Economos at InterMedia Series IV

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: viDEO sAVant w/ Nicholas Economos, InterMedia Series IV, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, Performance.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 05/30/2019
Date Modified:: 05/31/2019
Date Created:: 2004

Under the Bridge (Demo)

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:: 05/31/2019
Date Modified:: 05/31/2019
Date Created:: 1991

Perceptive Birds

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Live audio visual improvisation with on June 2, 2019 at the Ellen Web Studio in Oakland, CA.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Nicki Davis
Date Uploaded:: 07/02/2019
Date Modified:: 07/02/2019
Date Created:: 2019

Drifting Checks

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: video art
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Nicki Davis
Date Uploaded:: 07/02/2019
Date Modified:: 07/02/2019
Date Created:: 2019

Test Sketch for Six Vertical Screen Installation

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Six screen video installation proposal for a church social hall – the black bars represent pillars between the screens in the proposed exhibition space.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/23/2019
Date Modified:: 07/23/2019
Date Created:: 2018

viDEO sAVant at the Mockabee

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Excerpts from live audio visual improvisation on May 5, 2017 at the Mockabee in Cincinnati, OH. David McDonnell - reeds and electronics Ofir Klemperer - electronics Zach Larabee - percussion Charles Woodman, Loraine Wible, Sayak Shome - images
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/23/2019
Date Modified:: 07/23/2019
Date Created:: May 5, 2017

Shudderings of Images Awakening

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Commissioned by the Mini Micro Cinema for the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival – a response to a prompt they provided, “Shudderings of Images Awakening.”
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/23/2019
Date Modified:: 07/23/2019
Date Created:: 2017

viDEO sAVant Sample Reel 2011

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: This 7 minute demo reel contains excerpts from several 2006-11 shows including: - Discerning Crane, Herron School for the Arts, Indianapolis, 2010 - NWEMO All Stars, NOTACON, Cleveland, 2010 - Adam Tendler, performing Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage, New Genres Festival, Tulsa, 2009 - Meg Schedel, Odd Nosdam and Why?, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, 2006
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/23/2019
Date Modified:: 07/24/2019
Date Created:: 2011

Atomic B

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Live Cinema
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles and duo B.
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 06/17/2020
Date Modified:: 06/17/2020
Date Created:: 2020

The City and the Stars

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Excerpt from Performance at Spettr00, Brescia, Italy, October, 2019
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/12/2020
Date Modified:: 07/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019

I Cant Breathe / Say Their Names

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Concept and Direction - Stephen Slaughter Editor - Charles Woodman Audio Consultant - Kick Lee
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 07/12/2020
Date Modified:: 07/12/2020
Date Created:: 2020

The City and the Stars - Improvised over the Internet

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Improvised over the Internet with Charles Woodman, Fabrizio Saiu, Marurizio Rinaldi
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2020
Date Modified:: 09/10/2020
Date Created:: 2020

viDEO sAVant with duo B @ 12

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: viDEO sAVant with duo B @ 12, a virtual audio/visual playground, SEAMUS, Stanford CA
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 01/11/2022
Date Modified:: 01/12/2022
Date Created:: 2021-04-23

Red Sea Skank

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Commission work from Joseph's Bones
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 01/12/2022
Date Modified:: 01/12/2022
Date Created:: 2021

If Brahms Were a Rasta

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Commission work from Joseph's Bones
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 01/12/2022
Date Modified:: 01/12/2022
Date Created:: 2021

Words

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Belinda Reynolds (music), Ting Luo (piano and poetry), Charles Woodman (images) WORDS is a multimedia piano work with spoken words and visuals. The vocal part consists of an aural collage of Miss Luo, reciting in Mandarin and English, a poem written by herself, about the story of her grandfather, a composer during the late 20th century in China. The interplay between the audio collage, the video, and the piano part, create a multimedia composition that immerses the audience in a blanket of enticing, reflective sound-visual experiences.
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 01/12/2022
Date Modified:: 01/12/2022
Date Created:: 2022

Excavate

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: -Composer, Belinda Reyolds -Percussion and Vocals, University of Texas Percussion Ensemble Thomas Burrit, Director -Image, Charles Woodman
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 06/19/2023
Date Modified:: 06/19/2023
Date Created:: 2023-06

duo B vs viDEO sAVant at EIC

Type:: Media
Description/Abstract:: Performance recorded for the Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM
Creator/Author:: Woodman, Charles
Submitter:: Charles Woodman
Date Uploaded:: 06/19/2023
Date Modified:: 06/19/2023
Date Created:: 2022-04

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