3D & experimental Videos by Al Razutis
New Releases & Classics
2023 NEW WORKS & COLLABORATIONS
'Pearls Before Swine' (2023) by Al Razutis & Richard Martin
A 100 second visit by filmmaker / director / historian and curator Richard Martin to Razutis Visual Alchemy where he documents and Razutis re-edits his recordings of the multiplex (integral) 'first holographic movies' by Lloyd Cross, Sharon McCormack and friends.
With comment about the eastern and NY Centric holo scene version of history included in Razutis comments.
Video link You Tube
https://youtu.be/-rIlJG4v_e0
2022 - 2021 - COLLABORATIONS
2022 - A NEW 'VISUAL ESSAYS' SERIES
A 3D Documentary - Interpetive project
based on film recorded 2021 by Al Razutis and Guillaume Vallée
A documentary & interpretive project on west-coast holographic art, to feature the collections and archives at Visual Alchemy, Saturna Island BC studio has been initiated by Al Razutis and Guillaume Vallée in various audio and video recording sessions in 2021 and 2022.
Some examples from these sessions are represented in a new series of 'Visual Essays' by Al Razutis (editing), including material by Guillaume Vallée, which are posted on YOU TUBE here:
- 'A hologram of Field' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallée -- 'Visual Essay #5' -- Fields, particles, holography and Quantum Field theory -- 9 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'Another World ' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallée -- 'Visual Essay #4' -- Space, spacetime, and another world of MC Escher -- 7 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'The Wall of Upatnieks' -- Al Razutis with Guillaume Vallée -- 2021 -- 'Visual Essay #3' -- Section 1 & 2 'Our first hologram' narrated by Juris Upatnieks & 'Revisiting the site' sand tables -- 9 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'The temple of impossible' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallée -- 'Visual Essay #2' -- multiplex holography galleries of ghosts -- 9 min. silent video on YOU TUBE
- 'Let Brother Al Tell It' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallée -- 'Visual Essay #1' -- re-discovery of first multiplex hologram -- 2 min. video on YOU TUBE
>> XAR3D CHANNEL -- Razutis 3D and holography on YT
Experimental films in collaboration with Gary Courtland-Miles (sound)
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.
A favorite from 2019:
"Galiano Suite - No. 1" (2019) -- 4 min. sound or silent
"A favorite of mine that I re-present to you to show that it's not 'just film' or 'just holography' but includes all manners of viewing compositions in movement including stereoscopic 3D and conceptualizing about it:"
https://youtu.be/msGoStWsHgI
and with the following comments:
"Austere and simple, Galiano Suite #1 is comprised of long takes in stereo 3D with squeezed side by side stereopairs multiplexed into four screens as the framing device for this introductory movement in the Galiano Suite. Rendered in slo-mo.
"Sound level is very low, it's almost silent. It can be adjusted upwards if desired, but the preference is to keep it low as an ambience of unknown origins.
"Reference: 'Galiano Suite' is a suite of short films or 'movements' which, though derived from stereoscopic 3D film pairs is made to be seen without 3D glasses."
A classic from the analog 90's!
3 min. excerpt from 'VIRTUAL FLESH' (1996) now in anaglyph 3D on YouTube:
"Imagine 'Virtual Flesh' projected on a huge screen in 3D -- something like 20 ft diagonal -- by two Barco projectors, viewed with passive polarized glasses.... Imagine that! Imagine where? In the Louvre Paris auditorium in 1997 -- I talk about that tour of films, VR, and 3D video in my page 'which floats like a suspended time-capsule among all the 3D detritus and the noise' on the web. Yeah, this wasn't a one-night stand, ever. " -- 1997 Film and 3D Video / VR Tour of France
3D Video Home --- DVD Web Sales --- 1990's 3D Video Art --- Film - Video Archives
In Memoriam: Fred Unterseher (1946-2021)
Fred Unterseher (1946-2021) presents his holographic works
3 min. excerpt on YouTube anaglyph 3D ----- 2 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D:
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Fred Unterseher gives two short performance lectures from DVD contents
3 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D ----- 2 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D:
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VR Prose - Poems - short films 2020
Presented in standard video (2D)
by Al Razutis 1999 2 min. 2020 Reading on YouTube: 
Appearing in the new book "YES" "YOU" "CAN" |
by Al Razutis 1996 1 min. 30 sec on YouTube: 
Web page on this work Quasimodo's Poem VRML 2.0 |
NEW TITLES - Experimental
'Galiano Suite' in 2D / 3D - 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
'Galiano Shorebreak' in Anaglyph 3D
'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.
For more 2D / 3D EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 2019 & earlier see Burning Man 2015.
'Ensalada Deja Vu' in Anaglyph 3D
'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 with 'proper cinematographic etiquette'. Camera sits like a fly on the wall. It gets noisy. A audio visual salad.
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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1990's ANALOG 3D VIDEO ART EXCERPT REEL
13 min. sampler reel in anaglyph 3D 'Analog 3D Video Art' by Al Razutis - 1990s
Selections from 1990's analog 3D video art by Al Razutis was presented on opening and closing nights of the 2010 Vancouver exhibition 'Deja Vu' - selections from this work had also been previously screened by Razutis at the Musee du Louvre, in Paris, France in 1997, a page on which is here.
XAR3D CHANNEL - YouTube 3D video art by Razutis
Catalog page of 1990's analog 3D video art by Al Razutis
For a complete list of 3D films by Razutis see Razutis 3D Video Art List