Movies: Phil Morton

(1972-1974)...

is an informal, offbeat lesson in the electronics and mechanics of television. Sandin demonstrates basic video procedures, including use of the camera and editing decks, and explains the transmission of the television signal....

A joint effort by numerous video artists of the time, starring dancer Rylin Harris....

Phil Morton’s “SAIC Memo” video art work from 1981 features Timothy Leary, Jane Veeder and Jamie Fenton. The Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for realtime audio video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 ...

“Program #9” by Jane Veeder and Phil Morton is a collaborative Video Art work from 1979. “Program #9” is from a series of videos produced by Morton and Veeder under the name “the Electronic Visualization Center a television research satellite to the ...

Between 1976 and 1982, Jane Veeder traveled the western mountains of the United States with Phil Morton. On these road trips the two would shoot video of their surroundings using a portable video recorder. Some of these video recordings of the wester...

Short experimental film by Phil Morton and Guenther Tetz....

A quiet mediation on the sea (and what might lie beneath the surface?) from the late 70s....

A short, psychedelic film by Phil Morton....

A short experimental film by Phil Morton....

This is a example of early video art using the color capability of the Sandin Analogue Image Processor - the "Color IP"....

“This 60 minute electronic fantasy featuring computer animation can control and change your moods of elation and tranquility. To change or enhance your mood, simply play a musical selection that accompanies your present feeling - its mesmerising! The...

13 minute video art piece by Phil Morton....

Short video art piece....

The Second Electronic Visualization Event took place at The University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus in 1976. This documentation features Bob Snyder on EMU Synthesizer, Phil Morton on the Sandin Image Processor by Dan Sandin and Guenther Tetz on ...

Phil Morton's General Motors was created in 1976. Then based in Chicago, the late Phil Morton created this project as a playful and critical video response in conversation with a local General Motors dealership from whom he had purchased a van. Segme...

Experimental video art by Phil Morton....

Short experimental animation from a trio of talented knob-twiddlers....