Stan VanDerBeek Movies

An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting...

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

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

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...

A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

Optically-printed film and computer graphics synthesis. 16mm, color, silent, 4:40 min.

Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...

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

"Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer....

In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.

"A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it...

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

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

Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

"An animated vision... a subliminal glance at man in light and space" S.V.

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...

World leaders at the crossroads.

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...