A 1970s video synthesizer freakout that's basically schizophrenia rendered in analog pixels.
Practical Effects
Pioneering Rutt-Etra video synthesizer manipulation — no CGI, pure voltage.
Direction
Etra weaponizes scan lines like Jackson Pollock with a cathode ray tube.
Director
Bill Etra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made at WNET's TV Lab, a brief utopia where public television funded genuinely dangerous art.
Etra and Steve Rutt invented the scan processor used here; this is essentially a demo reel that accidentally became a profound document of 1970s attitudes toward mental illness.
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