Al Razutis

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Al Razutis is a avant-garde and documentary film-maker, multimedia artist, educator and innovator in motion-picture film and video, stereoscopic 3D video, holographic technologies and arts, and web-digital graphics for websites and virtual reality.

He has been creating and exhibiting avant-garde and documentary films and video since the late sixties, holographic displays and art since the early 70's, and web virtual reality and stereoscopic 3D video art since the 90's. During this time he developed custom-made film optical printing, video synthesizer, holographic recording and imaging technologies used in his published and exhibited works. He is a 'hands on' creator and technical innovator who freely acknowledges those 60's - 70's innovators (Moog, Buchla, Whitney, Brakhage, Cross, Benton and others) in the technologies and the arts that influenced his creativity.

His films have received a number of awards, including a 1988 Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and his media art works are found in a number of international collections and have been exhibited internationally, including a 1997 stereoscopic 3D video showing at the Louvre, a 2002 film-video retrospective at the Electronic Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany, and a 2004 exhibition of 3D video, film, video at SeNef, Seoul, Korea.

Credits

Year Title
1984-10-23 Visual Essays: Origins of Film
1984-01-01 Storming the Winter Palace
1983-10-21 Amerika
1982-01-01 For Artaud
1979-01-01 Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station)
1979-01-01 Ghost: Image
1979-01-01 A Message from Our Sponsor
1978-01-01 Portrait
1977-06-06 Egypte
1976-01-01 Sequels in Transfigured Time
1976-01-01 The Cities of Eden
1976-01-01 The Wasteland and Other Stories
1974-01-01 Aurora
1974-01-01 Runway Queens
1973-12-31 The Moon at Evernight...
1973-07-12 98.3 KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm)
1973-01-01 Le Voyage
1973-01-01 Visual Alchemy
1973-01-01 Méliès Catalogue
1972-01-01 Vortex
1972-01-01 Software
1970-07-01 Aaeon