Stan VanDerBeek Movies
- 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
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In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...
- 1972
The Computer Generation
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Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for...
- 1968
Film Form No. 1
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A hypnotic dance film of colours, dancers, forms, music, all sweeping through the TV tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and...
- 1964
Site
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Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.
- 1959
Street Meat
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Vanderbeek photographs NYC, 1959. The 'meat' of the street: Doorways, debris, dilapidation. We meet a few youngsters and get a glimpse into a bygone...
- 1968
Ad Infinitum
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- 1959
Astral Man
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"An animated vision... a subliminal glance at man in light and space" S.V.
- 1967
Expo Faces
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16mm film transferred to video, black and white, sound
- 1969
Filmmakers
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Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...
- 1968
Superimposition
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Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or...
- 1968
Oh
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”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man...
- 1977
Strobe Ode
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Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.
- 1981
After Laughter
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In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.
- 1965
Pastorale
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A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.
- 1966
Vision III
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16mm film transferred to video, black and white, silent
- 1966
Movie-Drome
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Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s spheres, VanDerBeek had the idea for a spherical theater where people would lie down and experience movies...
- 1967
Image After Image
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Optically-printed film and computer graphics synthesis. 16mm, color, silent, 4:40 min.
- 1970
Videospace
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"A film of video light and color. Dancers move through computer-generated patterns and fields of soft color to the music of Ravel. An experiment in...
- 1970
Moirage
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"A study in ocular illusions, pattern superimposition producing other patterns and illusions of three dimensionality. A thorough demonstration of the...