Stan VanDerBeek
Stan VanDerBeek is known for Science Friction (1959), A La Mode (1959), Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011).
Biography
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.
Questions about Stan VanDerBeek
How many Stan VanDerBeek films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 5 films with Stan VanDerBeek, from 1959 to 2011.
What was the first Stan VanDerBeek film?
The first Stan VanDerBeek film in the catalogue is A La Mode, from 1959.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
72 films — 5 in the catalogue
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6.8 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself (archive footage)
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Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
2000
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985
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Reeling in TV Time
1983
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Micro Cosmos 1-4
1983
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Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
1983
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Self-Poured Traits
1983
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Face Concert
1981
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After Laughter
1981
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Mirrored Reason
1980
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Euclidean Illusions
1980
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Color Fields Left
1977
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Vanishing Point Left
1977
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Strobe Ode
1977
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Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
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Symmetricks
1972
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5.9 Reality's Invisible
1972 · Self
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Who Ho Rays No. 1
1972
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The Computer Generation
1972
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Videospace
1970
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Moirage
1970
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Filmmakers
1969 · Himself
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Oh
1968
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Ad Infinitum
1968
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Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
1968
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Superimposition
1968
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Film Form No. 1
1968
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Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
1967
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Poem Field No. 1
1967
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Panels for the Walls of the World
1967
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Poem Field Series
1967
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Poem Field No. 7
1967
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Image After Image
1967
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6.0 For Life, Against the War
1967
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Expo Faces
1967
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Man and His World
1967
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Poem Field No. 3
1967
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Spherical Space No. 1
1967
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Collide: Oscope
1966
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8.0
Poem Field No. 2
1966
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Vision III
1966
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Movie-Drome
1966
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4.0 See Saw Seams
1965
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The Human Face Is a Monument
1965
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7.0
Pastorale
1965
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Movie-Movies
1965
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Facescapes
1965
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A Dam Rib Bed
1965
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The Birth of the American Flag
1965
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Fluids
1964
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6.0 Site
1964
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Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2
1964
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Phenomenon No. 1
1964
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4.9 Breathdeath
1963
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Summit
1963
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4.3 Skullduggery
1962
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Snapshots of the City
1961
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5.2
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
1960
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Black and White, Day and Night
1960
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The Smiling Workman
1960
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5.8 Science Friction
1959
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5.5
A La Mode
1959
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8.0 Astral Man
1959
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Dance of the Looney Spoons
1959
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Street Meat
1959
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Wheeeels No. 1
1958
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Wheeeeels No. 2
1958
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4.2 What, Who, How
1957
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Mankinda
1957
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Poem Field No. 4
no date
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Poem Field No. 8
no date
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Poem Field No. 6
no date
People data: TMDb.
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