Stan VanDerBeek Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1964
    Fluids

    Fluids

    Fluids

    01964HD

    16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract....

    Fluids
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    01969HD

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

    Filmmakers
  • 1959
    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    5.51959HD

    A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

    A La Mode
  • 1959
    Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh

    01959HD

    Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of...

    Pittsburgh
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    5.91972HD

    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...

    Reality's Invisible
  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

    5.91967HD

    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 1960
    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    5.21960HD

    A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
  • 1965
    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    01965HD

    A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

    Pastorale
  • 1965
    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    41965HD

    An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

    See Saw Seams
  • 1968
    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    01968HD

    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...

    Film Form No. 1
  • 1966
    Vision III

    Vision III

    Vision III

    01966HD

    16mm film transferred to video, black and white, silent

    Vision III
  • 1977
    Strobe Ode

    Strobe Ode

    Strobe Ode

    01977HD

    Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.

    Strobe Ode
  • 1983
    Reeling in TV Time

    Reeling in TV Time

    Reeling in TV Time

    01983HD

    In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

    Reeling in TV Time
  • 1959
    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    5.51959HD

    This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...

    Science Friction
  • 1972
    The Computer Generation

    The Computer Generation

    The Computer Generation

    01972HD

    Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for...

    The Computer Generation
  • 1963
    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.91963HD

    A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...

    Breathdeath
  • 1967
    Poem Field No. 7

    Poem Field No. 7

    Poem Field No. 7

    01967HD

    "Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/...

    Poem Field No. 7
  • 2000
    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    02000HD

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

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek