Stan VanDerBeek Movies

Face Concert is an ode to human expression in which VanDerBeek transforms the face into a visual canvas.

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

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

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...

"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a...

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

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

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

”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man...

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

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

An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

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...

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

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

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

Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry...

In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...