Grumbles 1973 · Animation "Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?" Show more Directed by Bill Etra · Written by Bill Etra ►︎ Trailer + My List Mark as watched ↗ Share Your Rating ★★★★★ Make it a double feature Grumbles + Perfect Blue A close match in mood and era. More from Bill EtraSee all →‹Street Scenes 1970 · 1970Street Scenes 1970★ 5.51970MovieDocumentaryTwo protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C.▶+Narcissicon · 1973Narcissicon1973MovieAnimationA narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.▶+Heartbeat · 1973Heartbeat1973MovieDocumentaryAnimationAn early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.▶+Ms. Muffet · 1975Ms. Muffet1975MovieComputer/ video interface piece by Bill and Louise Etra with Dr. Lou Katz.▶+Mars: An Optic Aspic · 1972Mars: An Optic Aspic1972MovieSet to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka. The 16mm film added some unexpected and welcome color effects that lend themselves to the composition and the choice was made to leave them in.▶+Tales from Beneath the Sheets · 1973Tales from Beneath the Sheets1973MovieReclined underneath a bedsheet, Louise Etra reads an excerpt from chapter 3 of Legman's "Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques of Gential Excitation". Visual effects done on the Rutt-Etra synthesizer.▶+Avalon · 2005Avalon2005MovieAnimationAvalon is a real-time animation made to demonstrate the possibilities of Bill Etra's prototype digital video synthesizer that he, at the time, called "The New Machine". Set to Django Reinhardt's "Avalon".▶+Lady of the Lake · 1974Lady of the Lake1974MovieHorrorMade by Bill and Louise Etra with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer in 1974. "A short piece of Gothic horror."▶+Abstractions on a Bedsheet · 1973Abstractions on a Bedsheet1973MovieBill Etra's "Abstractions on a Bedsheet" was made with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer under PDP11-10 computer control. Bill said that the climax took as long as the rest of the piece to compose and program.▶+Laser Quantum L · 1972Laser Quantum L1972MovieAn early work by Bill and Louise Etra.▶+How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's · 2016How to Scramble The Cosmic Egg's2016Movie"A substantial late work by Bill Etra". A "fast version" also exists.▶+›More Like This‹A Scanner Darkly · 2006A Scanner Darkly★ 6.82006MovieAnimationScience FictionAn undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.▶+Perfect Blue · 1998Perfect Blue★ 8.31998MovieAnimationThrillerRising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.▶+›
