Stan VanDerBeek

Directing •1927-01-06 •New York, New York

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.

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代表作

Poem Field No. 2

1966 · Director

Astral Man

1959 · Director

Site

1964 · Director

For Life, Against the War

For Life, Against the War

1967 · Director

Reality's Invisible

Reality's Invisible

1972 · Himself

Fuses

1967 · Director of Photography

1959 · Director

Science Friction

1959 · Director

Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

1960 · Director

Breathdeath

1963 · Director

Breathdeath

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全部作品

Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

2000

Home Movies 1971-81

1985

Reeling in TV Time

1983 •Director

Self-Poured Traits

1983 •Director

Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

1983 •Director

Micro Cosmos 1-4

1983 •Director

After Laughter

1981 •Director

Face Concert

1981 •Director

Euclidean Illusions

1980 •Director

Mirrored Reason

1980 •Director

展开全部作品

Strobe Ode

1977 •Director

Vanishing Point Left

1977 •Director

Color Fields Left

1977 •Director

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

1973

Reality's Invisible

1972 •Himself

Symmetricks

1972 •Director

The Computer Generation

1972 •Director

Who Ho Rays No. 1

1972 •Director

Moirage

1970 •Director

Videospace

1970 •Director

Filmmakers

1969 •Himself

Superimposition

1968 •Director

Ad Infinitum

1968 •Director

Film Form No. 1

1968 •Director

Oh

1968 •Director

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

1968 •Director

Image After Image

1967 •Director

Man and His World

1967 •Director

Expo Faces

1967 •Director

Fuses

1967 •Director of Photography

Poem Field Series

1967 •Director

Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

1967 •Director

Panels for the Walls of the World

1967 •Director

Poem Field No. 3

1967 •Director

For Life, Against the War

1967 •Director

Spherical Space No. 1

1967 •Director

Poem Field No. 1

1967 •Director

Poem Field No. 7

1967 •Director

Collide: Oscope

1966 •Director

Poem Field No. 2

1966 •Director

Vision III

1966 •Director

Movie-Drome

1966 •Director

Movie-Movies

1965 •Director

See Saw Seams

1965 •Director

The Human Face Is a Monument

1965 •Director

Pastorale

1965 •Director

A Dam Rib Bed

1965 •Director

Facescapes

1965 •Director

The Birth of the American Flag

1965 •Director

Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

1964 •Director

Phenomenon No. 1

1964 •Director

Site

1964 •Director

Fluids

1964 •Director

Breathdeath

1963 •Director

Breathdeath

1963 •Editor

Summit

1963 •Director

Skullduggery

1962 •Director

Snapshots of the City

1961 •Director

Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

1960 •Director

Black and White, Day and Night

1960 •Director

The Smiling Workman

1960 •Director

A La Mode

1959 •Director

Science Friction

1959 •Director

A La Mode

1959 •Writer

Street Meat

1959 •Director

Astral Man

1959 •Director

Dance of the Looney Spoons

1959 •Director

Pittsburgh

1959 •Cinematography

Wheeeels No. 1

1958 •Director

Wheeeeels No. 2

1958 •Director

What, Who, How

1957 •Director

Mankinda

1957 •Director

Poem Field No. 4

•Director

Poem Field No. 6

•Director

Poem Field No. 8

•Director