Al Razutis Movies

AAEON is based on experiments with dream recollection, and features the first optical printer technology developed in Vancouver and used in many of...

Amerika is a "feature-length experimental film which was created one reel at a time to function as a mosaic that expresses the various sensations,...

Ephemeral traces of nothingness—rotoscoping farmers, crumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film...

"A rich visual elaboration, through optical printing, of an archetypal realm characterized by the opposition/interplay of consciousness and matter in...

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films...

ÉGYPTE is a meditation on ancient time and space. Inspired by the Tibetan Tantric chants of the Lamas (which also comprises the sound track),...

This silent 9 minute film is like a 'pointillist painting' come to life - where grainy shapes reveal themselves to be part of a visual jigsaw puzzle...

he claustrophobia of media "reality" - compartmentalized into game shows, movies, news reports, commercials - is presented as continuous...

Travel as mediated spectacle, a time lapse journey from Vancouver to Reno and Las Vegas Nevada; speed as stasis, abstraction, violence, culminating...

Reconstructed from turn-of the century footage, an ironic vision of high industrial pomp and pageantry - in substantial shadows of ancient...

This short film video hybrid, combining film and video processing (colorizing, feedback, mixing, quantizing) saturates the viewer's sensorium with...

Aurora is a analog videosynthetic work incorporating film loops subject to colorization, quantizing and layering and was created by Razutis at the...

Built on the subliminal manipulation of forms and motion, this film's elusive, fiery images flare up and die back into the night void in recurring...

A poetic document depicting psychological, alchemical, and physical aspects of earlier work in visual "transmutation" at the Visual Alchemy Studio,...

In 'Software', the pixel lights of the industrialized world (electrical power) are re-formed in the speckles and patterned light of the video screen:...