DETAILED ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: 3D VIDEO ART by Al Razutis

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*   Compatible with most 3D Video viewing systems

"For the collector interested in video and art, and not novelty pitches or amateur hour.
For the viewers interested in something more than 'in your face' FX or bland documentaries, kitch horror or ride simulations
these tapes encourage a new way of seeing both subject and it's rendering in stereoscopic 'space'."

Select from two different 3D DVD programs:

'Selections' and '3D Shorts'

Award-Winning tapes, poetic avant-garde subjects, internationally shown,
with selections screened at the Louvre - Paris,
and the European Media Arts Festival 2002 - Germany, and SENEF 2004 - Korea

 

INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIONS - DESCRIPTIONS:

Title:  "NAGUAL" (3D stereoscopic video - 17 min. - 1998)

Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, 1998, VHS Stereo.

*   Prize Winner 1999 Southern Calif. 3D Film/Video Fest

The title refers to Carlos Castaneda's term and the 'warrior's' preparation and response to the 'Nagual' (Tales of Power, 1976).

This piece, shot at the videomaker's 'Los Serpientes' at 'Land's End' (Los Cabos, Mexico), takes one on an imagistic journey (through metaphor and interplay of co-incident selections from the music of Brian Eno/David Byrne - 'My life in the Bush of Ghosts') from shipwreck to bone totems, from totem to dance, a dance with the 'Old Men' of Saguaro groves, to a intense stroboscopic sequence pitting the voice of a christian 'exorcist' against the spirit 'of possession'.

ENTIRE WORK CONTAINED IN '3D SHORTS'

EXCERPT ONLY IN 'SELECTIONS'

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Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, 1996, VHS
(available as installation in addition to standard video format)

*   Prize Winner at 1997 So. Calif. 3D film/video fest. Exhibited at the Louvre, Paris 1997.

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This tape is a fascinating departure from 'typical' stereoscopic works, both in terms of its radical form and sensuous content.

In this 3D video, nude female and male figures occupy a womb-like field of light, shadow and form,  with each movement, gesture, thrusting out towards the viewer.  The television screen, or projection surface (if video-projected) becomes elastic and sculpture-like. 

The female/male figures appear as forms in an ever changing sculptural form which through movement and image 'morphing' makes real the sexual, androgynous and erotic forms.

Recommended for ADULT AUDIENCES - meaning, this is not a 'pornographic' tape (for the voyeurs cruising the web) but contains nudity, and presumably could be 'offensive' to some who can't bear the sight of 'virtual' flesh.

Shot with the assistance of Fred Unterseher, Rebecca Deem at Zone Holographics (Los Angeles), and David Rimmer, Sarah Butterfield at Powell Street Studio (Vancouver).

Title: "FRANCE - 1997" (3D stereoscopic video - 37 min. - 1997-8)

Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, 1997-8, Music selections from 'Dead Can Dance', VHS Stereo.

(Includes 'STATUES...'   * Prize winner at 1998 So. Calif. 3D film/video fest.)

This 3D videotape presents a complex journey and visual interpretation of the many sights (from Paris to Marseille to Nantes) of France during the videomaker's exhibition journey in 1997. This is experimental video, poetic videography organized around specific and metaphoric themes. (in other words, it's not a 'travelog').

The subjects of landscape, the 'impressionist way of seeing', historic archithecture, catholicism, surrealist 'chance meetings' of topics and images exist amidst a dream-like background of blurred motion, superimposed spaces and textures, ending at the 'intersections of light'.

Title: "STATUES" (3D stereoscopic video - 7 min. - 1997-8)

Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, 1997-8, VHS Stereo.

*   Prize Winner at 1998 So. Calif. 3D film/video fest.

"The statues speak of memory and time..." is the invocation to this impressionistic view of the famous/timeless CLASSICS inside the Louvre Museum (Paris) and the performance artist outside the museum.

This strange meditation on time, space, and the meanings of 'being mortal' features features a blend of time-smeared motion and and stereoscopic 3-dimensional composition.

Released as a separate tape, it is also contained within 'FRANCE 1997'

ENTIRE WORK CONTAINED IN '3D SHORTS' and 'SELECTIONS'

Title:  "MEDITATIONS"   (3-D stereoscopic video, 10 min. stereo)

Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, 1996. - VHS - stereo (Other formats available)

*   Prize Winner at 1997 So. Calif. 3D film/video fest. Exhibited at the Louvre, Paris 1997.

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Following the tradition of 'film-visual poetry' this 3-dimensional stereoscopic video tape is composed as a allegorical journey via image, sound, memory to an "island" - a time and a place at 'the edge of 'Euclid's two-dimensional sea'.  It utilizes unique stereoscopic processes and videography to render a series of scenes in 3-dimensional depth: progressing from subtle to exaggerated '3-D' views.

Selected on tour with LANDSCAPES, a VIDEO OUT exhibition curated by Karen Knights in 1998.

Selected for presentation at National Stereoscopic Association 2002 (Riverside) Electronic Theater.

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Title:  "DEAN FOGAL: CORPOREAL ART"  (3D stereoscopic video -52 min.- 1996-7)

Produced and Directed by Al Razutis, in collaboration with Dean Fogal; 1996-7 VHS Stereo (available in other formats)

ARCHIVE COPIES ONLY- BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Stereographic video documentation and interpretation of "corporeal mime" performances by Dean Fogal and students of corporeal mime. Mr. Fogal is an accomplished mime artist and teacher, who studied corporeal mime with Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau in Paris.

This tape contains four short mime performances - 'Chairing' and 'Walking on Air' by Dean Fogal, 'Discovery of Loss' with Dean Fogal and Anthony Artibello, and 'Shadows of Love' with Daniel Lomas and Sue Biely. These shorts were created 1996-7 as a collaboration between performers and 3D video maker (Razutis) and are only available by contacting Razutis at alrazutis@yahoo.com.

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