Avant-Garde and Experimental Films & Videos by Al Razutis
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RECENT IN PERSON SCREENINGS - 2024
XINEMA + UNIT/PITT // @unitpitt present N Dimensional Space -
an experimental film screening
organized
to accompany Al Razutis’ exhibition Gravity wins, Entropy rules at Unit / Pitt, Vancouver
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 8PM --
The Garden – UNIT/PITT --
2954 West 4th Ave. Vancouver, Canada
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N: a point in euclidean space representing infinity in all directions; a dimension that extends beyond the familiar. Through the works of filmmakers Kasper Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Peter Lipskis, Sam Perry, and Al Razutis, the perceptive qualities of holography and its relationship to the physical world are accentuated through the lens of the n-dimension. Drawing from the Holographic Paradigm Theory, these seven local works portray a world where there is order in chaos and uncertainty is only superficial. Portrayed through the celluloid medium, these films use thematic repetition, crystalline imagery, and structural experimentation to queer our comprehension of the unknown.
Released between the years of 1965-2023, this program showcases a range of voices from Vancouver’s experimental film history, representing a community of filmmakers influenced by the shifting ethos and environments of the Pacific Northwest. Curated by Sidney Gordon."
https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/n-dimensional-space/
Photos of event by Felix Rapp
Q & A done 'underground film' style -- all the way to midnight
MAJOR CLASSICS - COMPLETE WORKS ONLY ON DVD -- FEW REMAINING COPIES:
HISTORICAL TITLES ON DVD:
THESE WORKS IN THEIR ENTIRETY ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THE WEB - ONLY ON DVD
NEW TITLES 2022 - 2019
New Experimental short films on subjects such as 'Burning Man':
"We finish the year with some collaborations between Gary Courtland-Miles, a composer musician and island neighbor, with whom I worked back in 2015, and myself on the various subjects that I've explored, and for release this month and throughout 2022.
I'm delighted that we're back at it, two creative forces on the same island, for a while(!)" -- AR
BM 2021 by XAR (Al Razutis) -- with music by Gary Courtland-Miles - 18 min.
'Galiano Suite' in 2D / 3D - 2019 experimental films on You Tube
Galiano Suite 2 - 'Rhythms' - Al Razutis 2D/3D 2019 14 min.
"What started as a stereoscopic 3D film became a puzzle with riddles.
Like how to see 'something' that can't be seen
with a stereo pair being paired and paired
for the mind's stereopsis
which only thinks in simple two-channel binaries.
'Galiano Suite', a place of such marvels."
Galiano Suite 1 - 'Intro' - Al Razutis 2D (from 3D) 2019 4 min. XAR3D CHANNEL - YouTube 3D video art by Razutis
NEW TITLES 3D
'Ensalada Deja Vu' in Anaglyph 3D - 2019
'Ensalada Deja Vu'' - 6 min. version 'para llevar' anaglyph 3D video by Al Razutis 2019
Anaglyph 3D glasses (red-cyan) required to view properly in 3D
'Ensalada Deja Vu' comes in several sizes, call it 'prepared to order': as "para llevar" (take out) 6 min. and "para aqui" (stay for dining) 20 minutes, and available in 1080p.
Para aqui is 19 minutes, for installation, projection on a wall, perhaps facing "Galiano Shorebreak" (which is silent) with expanded content and different ending from 6 min. version.
This 'fly on the wall view' perspective is combined with 'tossed salad' editing style with VFX, step-printing, ghosting, as image and time is mixed into ensalada and rendered as red-cyan anaglyph 3D video for viewing with anaglyph 3D glasses or in '2D' with color offset double images. It documents opening night at our 2010 exhibition of holographic art, stereo 3D art - history, lenticular art, and 3D video and film presentations - the exhibition title was "Deja Vu". Some of the opening night attendees become 'characters' in this video through no other design except chance, or what Lautremont wrote and the Surrealists embraced: "As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table."
The video has no narration. Video subjects are the people, the art is backgrounded. The people are not lit in any 'proper cinematographic etiquette'. Camera sits like a fly on the wall. It gets noisy.
'Galiano Shorebreak' in Anaglyph 3D - 2019
'Galiano Shorebreak' - 5 min. version anaglyph 3D video by Al Razutis 2019
Anaglyph 3D glasses (red-cyan) required to view properly in 3D - released on YOUTUBE.
'Galiano Shorebreak' - 11 min. version anaglyph 3D video
'Galiano Shorebreak' is a silent film poem shot in native 3D on Galiano Island, British Columbia, a dance with eroded stone works shoreline whose movements are mapped as the camera is free to move as a wave upon the surface of shore.
This version is rendered in red-cyan anaglyph stereo 3D to match the stone colour surfaces and to fix the 3D as colour 'relief'. This work comes in two durations: 5 minutes and 11 minutes, which represent venue-oriented durations (from smartphone to gallery installation) and contain different expanded endings.
View 3D web-graphics with anaglyph (red-cyan or blue) 3D glasses 
for correct spatial representation.
Burning Man 2015 in Stereoscopic 3D and mono by Al Razutis
Short subject films from this project in 3D on YOUTUBE
Chain of Events - Burning Man 2015 - 5 min.
2019 film by Al Razutis to be viewed in 3D, or viewed in 2D. Looped or not.
Two shots form a loop. 2015 Burning Man Camp Gallavant night.
Four loops form a chain.
Back and forth form a panorama.
Put player on loop and the chain is open ended.
No titles, no clutter.
View in 2D side-by side 1/2 wide stereo sxs images or view in 3D sxs or anaglyph full width.
At your discretion.
The Playa at Night a voyeur's delight (Anaglyph 3D) - 3 min. 2018
This meditation on Burning Man 2015 night scenes features dissolving freeze-frames of 3D / 2D 'smeared' moments and is set to slowed down music by Gary Miles.
Can be viewed in 2D and / or 3D - the anaglyph version represents a state of incompleteness in stereo 3D, which then becomes suggestive as to what is missing.
Use anaglyph 3D (red / cyan) glasses to view in 3D.
The Playa in White (in sand wind and light) - Al Razutis 3 min. 2018
3 min. excerpt from Scenes from Burning Man 2015 by Al Razutis (XAR3D), focused on the 'playa sirens and shapes coming to life' in sand storms and changing light.
Music from Gary Miles composition slowed down by AR.
2D standard version. 720p
Night Scenes Burning Man 2018 - 5 min.
Interpretive documentary, experimental video by Al Razutis, with music by Gary Miles.
Various sections depict camp Galavant art tour, the playa at night and burn (light walkers and burn baby burn...) - 5 min. version.
2018 film by Al Razutis (XAR) in standard 2D is an excerpt from larger project of films interpreting Burning Man 2015 with individual films in 2D and 3D released separately.
NEW TITLES - 'LEGACY' EXCERPTS - 2020 - 2019
'Ghosts in the Machine' excerpted in 2020
1-4 min. excerpts on YouTube:
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2 min. 40 sec. on YouTube: 
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3 min. 30 sec. on YouTube: 
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4 min. on YouTube: 
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VR Prose - Poems - short films 2019
by Al Razutis 1999 2 min. on YouTube: 
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by Al Razutis 1996 1 min. 30 sec on YouTube: 
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Films available on this web site on DVD
Statement: 'These Films - This Site'
Classic avant-garde video subjects / programs available on DVD
Illustrated Film & Video Archives: Complete Archives of Short Films, videos & 3D videos by Al Razutis
