Stan VanDerBeek Movies
- 1967
Man and His World
Man and His World01967HD
16mm film transferred to video, color, sound
- 1968
Superimposition
Superimposition01968HD
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...
- 1960
The Smiling Workman
The Smiling Workman01960HD
Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.
- 1966
Collide: Oscope
Collide: Oscope01966HD
An experimental film
- 1981
Face Concert
Face Concert01981HD
Face Concert is an ode to human expression in which VanDerBeek transforms the face into a visual canvas.
- 1966
Movie-Drome
Movie-Drome01966HD
Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s spheres, VanDerBeek had the idea for a spherical theater where people would lie down and experience movies...
- 1980
Euclidean Illusions
Euclidean Illusions01980HD
A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA...
- 1983
Reeling in TV Time
Reeling in TV Time01983HD
In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.
- 1965
Facescapes
Facescapes01965HD
- 1980
Mirrored Reason
Mirrored Reason01980HD
A Kafka-inspired tale, Mirrored Reason tells the story of a woman who is haunted and eventually replaced by her double.
- 1958
Wheeeels No. 1
Wheeeels No. 101958HD
"Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy-farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion,...
- 1970
Poem Field No. 8
Poem Field No. 801970HD
Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.
- 1970
Poem Field No. 6
Poem Field No. 601970HD
Poem Field No. 6 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.
- 1970
Poem Field No. 4
Poem Field No. 401970HD
Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.
- 1967
Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)01967HD
To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs....
- 1965
Movie-Movies
Movie-Movies01965HD
Experimental film that used handheld projectors to present film images and slide projections.
- 2000
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek02000HD
Visual Velocity is a tribute to the pioneering work of Stan VanDerBeek. VanDerBeek was an experimental filmmaker, artist, animator, and media...
- 1968
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall01968HD
COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer...
- 1972
Who Ho Rays No. 1
Who Ho Rays No. 101972HD
"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a...
- 1983
Micro Cosmos 1-4
Micro Cosmos 1-401983HD
In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life...