Stan VanDerBeek Movies
- 1960
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev5.21960HD
A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...
- 1967
Poem Field No. 1
Poem Field No. 101967HD
"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...
- 1966
Poem Field No. 2
Poem Field No. 281966HD
To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs....
- 1965
The Human Face Is a Monument
The Human Face Is a Monument01965HD
- 1981
Face Concert
Face Concert01981HD
Face Concert is an ode to human expression in which VanDerBeek transforms the face into a visual canvas.
- 1968
Oh
Oh01968HD
”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man...
- 1972
Reality's Invisible
Reality's Invisible5.91972HD
Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...
- 1965
The Birth of the American Flag
The Birth of the American Flag01965HD
- 1964
Site
Site61964HD
Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.
- 1957
Mankinda
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An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting...
- 1983
Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie01983HD
In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...
- 1967
Poem Field Series
Poem Field Series01967HD
"Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer....
- 1957
What, Who, How
What, Who, How4.251957HD
An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.
- 1972
The Computer Generation
The Computer Generation01972HD
Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for...
- 1967
Man and His World
Man and His World01967HD
16mm film transferred to video, color, sound
- 1972
Symmetricks
Symmetricks01972HD
Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...
- 1977
Strobe Ode
Strobe Ode01977HD
Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.
- 1970
Moirage
Moirage01970HD
"A study in ocular illusions, pattern superimposition producing other patterns and illusions of three dimensionality. A thorough demonstration of the...
- 1981
After Laughter
After Laughter01981HD
In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.
- 1960
Black and White, Day and Night
Black and White, Day and Night01960HD
"A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it...