Stan VanDerBeek
Directing
Born 1927-01-06
Died 1984-09-19
New York, New York
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
53 credits
Strobe Ode
Breathdeath
Fluids
Vision III
Poem Field Series
Face Concert
Expo Faces
Mirrored Reason
Moirage
After Laughter
Movie-Movies
Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2
Astral Man
Facescapes
Videospace
Superimposition
Science Friction
Who Ho Rays No. 1
Summit
Collide: Oscope
Street Meat
Ad Infinitum
Pastorale
Movie-Drome
Oh
Euclidean Illusions
Skullduggery
Mankinda
Site
Symmetricks
Poem Field No. 2
For Life, Against the War
The Human Face Is a Monument
Wheeeeels No. 2
Black and White, Day and Night
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
Panels for the Walls of the World
What, Who, How
Man and His World
Micro Cosmos 1-4
See Saw Seams
Reeling in TV Time
Self-Poured Traits
The Birth of the American Flag
Image After Image
Poem Field No. 1
Vanishing Point Left
Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
A La Mode
Color Fields Left
Wheeeels No. 1
The Smiling Workman
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
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Breathdeath
Fuses
Home Movies 1971-81
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
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