Al Razutis
- Known for
- Directing
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.
Filmography
Visual Essays: Origins of Film 1984
as (voice), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Storming the Winter Palace 1984
Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
Amerika 1983
Actor, Sound, Music, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Director
For Artaud 1982
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
A Message from Our Sponsor 1979
Director
Ghost: Image 1979
Writer, Director
Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station) 1979
Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Portrait 1978
Director
Egypte 1977
Director
The Wasteland and Other Stories 1976
Director
The Cities of Eden 1976
Director
Sequels in Transfigured Time 1976
Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Runway Queens 1974
Director
Aurora 1974
Director
The Moon at Evernight... 1973
Director
98.3 KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm) 1973
Director
Méliès Catalogue 1973
Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
Visual Alchemy 1973
Director
Le Voyage 1973
Director
Software 1972
Director
Vortex 1972
Director
Aaeon 1970
Actor, Director
Le bulbe tragique 2016
as (voice)
Credits from TMDB.