Dean Winkler

Movies

In C, Too
Director
"In C, Too" illuminates how close our dreams are to a common reality. Through structured visual improvisational techniques, the work explores how humanity survives because of our imagination and desire to transcend. "In C, Too" is also an origin story, operating in renunciation to mortality, focused on life's essentials - existence, exploration and how entropy ignites evolution.
140 Characters
Director
"We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
Frames for Seconds
Producer
Video art show presented at the 1991 Broadcast Designers Association convention. Includes work from: Robert Ashley, Robert Breer, Peter Callas, Christen Clark, Sumit Das, Ed Emshwiller, John Hart, Jon Klein, Lyonel Kouro, Maureen Nappi, Paul Garin, Amy Greenfield, Nam June Paik, Mark Pellington, M. Rawlings, John Sanborn, Dan Sandin, William Wegman, Dean Winkler. Major contributions include "MAJORCA-fantasia", "Sunstone", "Welcome to My Living Room" and "Neo-Geo: An American Purchase", as well as excerpts from "Perfect Lives".
Infinite Escher
Director
A boy travels through the world of M.C. Escher.
Continuum: 1. Initiation
Director
Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.
Continuum: Parts 1 & 2
Director
Abstract video art with music composed by Philip Glass. Music by the Kronos String Quartet.
Luminare
Writer
Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.
Luminare
Director
Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.
Perfect Lives
Post-Production Manager
An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Set in the American Midwest, it is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
Perfect Lives
Visual Effects Editor
An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Set in the American Midwest, it is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
Renaissance
Director
Created in 1984 for the opening of the Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. By Dean Winkler and John Sanborn. Music by Jamaaladen Tacuma.
ACT III
Director
Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.
Voyage
Director
An NTSC space opera.
Tempest
Director
Abstract video art created in 1981. Music by Vibeke Sorensen and Walter Michael.
Aquarelles
Director
Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.
Modulated Horizontal Lines
Director
"Abstract video art created in 1976. Video by Dean Winkler and Chris Lambiase. Music by Terry Riley. This was created in real time using an RE-4 Rutt/Etra analog video synthesizer. After spending our January college break building the facility that housed the RE-4 and related equipment, we created this tape (with lots of patch cords) the night before we headed back to school." -Dean Winkler