Director
Peter Campus
89 years · New York City, New York, USA · 10 films
Born in 1937, Peter Campus studied experimental psychology at Ohio State College and film at the City College of New York. His early tapes explore the anatomy of the video signal in relation to human psychology and perception. "The video camera makes possible an exterior point of view simultaneous with one's own. This advance over the film camera is due to the vidicon tube, similar to the retina of the eye, continually transposing light (photon) energy into electrical energy... It is easy to utilize video to clarify perceptual situations because it separates the eye-surrogate from the eye-brain experience we are all too familiar with." Campus was one of a group of artists in the mid-70s who produced work in the experimental TV labs at WGBH in Boston and WNET in New York. In addition to numerous single-channel works, he has investigated the characteristics of "live" video through closed-circuit video installations and elaborate sculptural works whose structural components included video cameras, projectors, and monitors.
Best known for
Filmography 10
shinnecock bay: leeward
2019 · Director, Editor
shinnecock bay: locks eddy
2019 · Director, Cinematography
Death Threat
2000 · Director
East Ended Tape
1976 · Director
Four Sided Tape
1976 · Director
Third Tape
1976 · Director
Casual Relations
1974 · Actor
On Kanopy
Three Transitions
1973 · Actor, Director
Double Vision
1971 · Director
Dynamic Field Series
1971 · Director