Stan VanDerBeek Movies

Self Poured Traits is a tongue-in-cheek self-examination set to the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth.

"A film of video light and color. Dancers move through computer-generated patterns and fields of soft color to the music of Ravel. An experiment in...

"A Claes Oldenburg 'happening.' A black statement about the City in which two people represent the populace after a bomb raid." S.V.

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

"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,...

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

Vanderbeek photographs NYC, 1959. The 'meat' of the street: Doorways, debris, dilapidation. We meet a few youngsters and get a glimpse into a bygone...

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

Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

An experimental film

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

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

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

"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/...

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...

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

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...

An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as...

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...