Visual Studies Workshop

Collection Type: Institution

Phone Number: 5852040077

Contact Email: marylewandowski@vsw.org

Collection Policy: VSW was founded in 1969 in Rochester, New York by photographer, educator and curator Nathan Lyons (1930–2016). Rooted in Lyons’ progressive vision of the “workshop idea,” VSW became one of the earliest independent, not-for-profit, artist-run spaces in the country. Since its inception, VSW has provided residencies to over 500 artists, produced more than 500 exhibitions, screened over 1,000 films and videos, and published more than 500 artists’ books through VSW Press. Additionally, we have educated over 1,000 students through workshops and our MA and MFA programs (1969–2022), and founded and published the periodical Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (1972-2018). Our media collections include over a million photography and film-related objects, making our small organization unique in the field.

4,581 films in this collection.

Title ▲	Year	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
Percusion, Impressiones y Realidad				16mm
Percussion: Pulse of Music				16mm
Perfect Day, A	1929	BLACK	21 min.	16mm	B&W
Perfect Drug Film, The	1971	CCM	32 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Perfectly Normal Day, A	1978	CALLY	27 min.	16mm	Color
Performance	1975	Janus Films	20	16mm	Color	sound
Performance Appraisal: The Human Dynamics	1978	CRM/McGraw-Hill Films: Distributor \| CRM/McGraw-Hill Films	0:25:00	16mm	Color	sound
Performing Commedia Del'Arte	1973		20 min.	16mm	Color
Permission to Kill				16mm
Peru: People Of The Andes		Encyclopedia Britanica Films	22 16 min.	16mm	B&W	sound
Pesticides in Focus	1972	SHELL	25 min.	16mm	Color
Pet Therapy				16mm
Peter and the Wolf	1946	WDISNEY	14 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Peter Tchaikovsky Story, The	1964	WDISNEY	30 min.	16mm	Color
Peter Ustinov's Leningrad	1978	LCA	51 min.	16mm	Color
Peter's Chair		Weston Woods Studios	6 min	16mm	Color	sound
Pets: a boy and his dog	1969	BFA Educational Media	11	16mm	Color	sound
Phantom of the Opera, The	1925	Niles	94 min.	16mm	B&W
Phantom Ship	1937	Niles	70 min.	16mm	B&W
Pharmacist, The	1933	PARAMOU	20 min.	16mm	B&W	sound
Philadelphia Story, The	1940	MGM/UA	112 min	16mm	B&W
Phillip and the White Colt	1973	C	23 min.	16mm	Color
Photography: How It Works	1973	Kodak	11 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Photosynthesis	1963	ebec	24 min.	16mm	Color
Physical Aspects of Puberty				16mm	B&W
Physical fitness in the later years	1983	Church	23 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso	1973	MCGH	44 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso	1955	McGraw	50 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso is Ninety	1971	CAROSL	51 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso, A Painter's Diary, Part 3: A Unity of Variety	1980	Perspec	22 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso, a Painter's Diary: Part 1: The Formative Years	1980	Perspec	36 min.	16mm	Color
Picasso, a Painter's Diary: Part 2: From Cubism to Guernica	1980	Perspec	35 min.	16mm	Color
Picnic	1991	Weston Woods	14	16mm	Color	sound
Picture #4	1997		7:00 min	16mm	Color
Picture for Harold's Room, A	1971	Weston	7 min	16mm	Color
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The	1983	Medgild	29 min.	16mm	Color	sound
Pig's Wedding	1990	Weston	7 min	16mm	Color
Pigeon that Worked a Miracle, The	1965	WDISNEY	47 min.	16mm	Color
Pigment Forest	1985	SKIP	3 min	16mm	Color
Pigs!	1967	Churchill Films \| Dimension Films	0:11:00	16mm	Color	sound
Pigskin capers	1932	Blackhawk	9	16mm	B&W	sound
Pigskin Palooka, The	1937	BLACK	11 min.	16mm	B&W
Pilgrim, The	1923	DIOFCH	45 min.	16mm	B&W
Pilgrims, The				16mm
Pilgrims, The	1955	ebec	22 min.	16mm	B&W
Pilgrims, The	1955	ebec	22 min.	16mm	B&W
Pimental Discusses the Hydrogen Atom	1964	mla	32 min.	16mm	B&W
Pinata	1963	SIGMA	11	16mm
Pinballs	1977	Walt Disney	31	16mm	Color	sound
Pippi Goes On Board		Films Incorporated Video	84 min.	16mm	Color	sound