Stan VanDerBeek

Stan VanDerBeek

American experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek began his career in the 1950’s after having studied art and architecture in New York and North Carolina. His earliest period (1955-1965) is marked by his animated painting and collage films which the artist and critic Daryl Chin regarded as having an “enormous vitality, bounding inventiveness and incendiary wit which was shared by such other collagists as Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Dick Preston.” Films such as Science Friction (1959, 10’), Breathdeath (1963, 15’), A la Mode (1959, 7’) and Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev (1960, 2’) are from this period. In the 1960’s, in the context of his expanded cinema research, Vanderbeek started his audacious project of the “Movie Drome” theater, a space that allowed him to create an appropriate environment for his synesthetic works, which included film, performance and dance among other disciplines. The filmmaker spent about 10 years developing this project, which consisted of a huge dome that surrounded the audience and engulfed them in the images projected all around them. From the mid-1960’s, Vanderbeek ‘s appetite for exploring new technologies increased and tools such as video played a major part in the filmmaker’s work. This can be seen in his computer-animated films from this period such as Symmetricks (1972, 6’) and the Poemfield series of 8 computer generated animations (1966-1971). His work with computers and experiments with holograms reflected his desire to use the most complex technology to get as close as possible to the functioning of the human nervous system. In addition to his creative work in the fields of film and video art, Vanderbeek was a faculty member and artist-in-residence at a number of major universities. He died in 1984.

  • Title: Stan VanDerBeek
  • Popularity: 0.484
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-01-06
  • Place of Birth: New York, New York
  • Homepage: http://www.stanvanderbeek.com/
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Stan VanDerBeek Movies

  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1969
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    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    1 1969 HD

    Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

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  • 1972
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    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    5.9 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    1 2000 HD

    Visual Velocity is a tribute to the pioneering work of Stan VanDerBeek. VanDerBeek was an experimental filmmaker, artist, animator, and media...

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  • 1967
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    Image After Image

    Image After Image

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1959
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    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    5.5 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    5.5 1959 HD

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  • 1962
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    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    4.3 1962 HD

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  • 1959
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    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    5.5 1959 HD

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  • 1972
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    Symmetricks

    Symmetricks

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    Collide: Oscope

    Collide: Oscope

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    Movie-Movies

    Movie-Movies

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1960
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    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    5.2 1960 HD

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  • 1965
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    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    4 1965 HD

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  • 1966
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    Poem Field No. 2

    Poem Field No. 2

    8 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Vision III

    Vision III

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    Man and His World

    Man and His World

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Expo Faces

    Expo Faces

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1968
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    Superimposition

    Superimposition

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1963
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    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.9 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.9 1963 HD

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  • 1970
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    Poem Field No. 4

    Poem Field No. 4

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Poem Field No. 6

    Poem Field No. 6

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Poem Field No. 8

    Poem Field No. 8

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1960
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    Black and White, Day and Night

    Black and White, Day and Night

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1957
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    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    4.25 1957 HD

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  • 1967
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    Fuses

    Fuses

    5.8 1967 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Human Face Is a Monument

    The Human Face Is a Monument

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1958
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    Wheeeels No. 1

    Wheeeels No. 1

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1967
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    Poem Field Series

    Poem Field Series

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1968
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    Ad Infinitum

    Ad Infinitum

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Oh

    Oh

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    Panels for the Walls of the World

    Panels for the Walls of the World

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1957
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    Mankinda

    Mankinda

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1966
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    Movie-Drome

    Movie-Drome

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1967
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    Poem Field No. 3

    Poem Field No. 3

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1959
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    Street Meat

    Street Meat

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Astral Man

    Astral Man

    8 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1958
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    Wheeeeels No. 2

    Wheeeeels No. 2

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1964
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    Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

    Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Phenomenon No. 1

    Phenomenon No. 1

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Site

    Site

    6 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Fluids

    Fluids

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1965
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    A Dam Rib Bed

    A Dam Rib Bed

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Facescapes

    Facescapes

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Birth of the American Flag

    The Birth of the American Flag

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1967
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    Spherical Space No. 1

    Spherical Space No. 1

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Computer Generation

    The Computer Generation

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1967
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    Poem Field No. 1

    Poem Field No. 1

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1980
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    Euclidean Illusions

    Euclidean Illusions

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Mirrored Reason

    Mirrored Reason

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1981
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    After Laughter

    After Laughter

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1963
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    Summit

    Summit

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1961
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    Snapshots of the City

    Snapshots of the City

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1970
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    Moirage

    Moirage

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Videospace

    Videospace

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1977
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    Strobe Ode

    Strobe Ode

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Vanishing Point Left

    Vanishing Point Left

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Color Fields Left

    Color Fields Left

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1981
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    Face Concert

    Face Concert

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1983
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    Reeling in TV Time

    Reeling in TV Time

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Self-Poured Traits

    Self-Poured Traits

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Micro Cosmos 1-4

    Micro Cosmos 1-4

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1972
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    Who Ho Rays No. 1

    Who Ho Rays No. 1

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1968
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    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    Poem Field No. 7

    Poem Field No. 7

    1 1967 HD

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