Stan VanDerBeek Movies

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

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

A Kafka-inspired tale, Mirrored Reason tells the story of a woman who is haunted and eventually replaced by her double.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

"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/...

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...

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

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

A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA...

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

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

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

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

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

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

Experimental film that used handheld projectors to present film images and slide projections.