Stan VanDerBeek Movies

  • 1960
    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    01960HD

    Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

    The Smiling Workman
  • 1965
    Facescapes

    Facescapes

    Facescapes

    01965HD

    Facescapes
  • 1963
    Summit

    Summit

    Summit

    01963HD

    World leaders at the crossroads.

    Summit
  • 1967
    Panels for the Walls of the World

    Panels for the Walls of the World

    Panels for the Walls of the World

    01967HD

    A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

    Panels for the Walls of the World
  • 1965
    A Dam Rib Bed

    A Dam Rib Bed

    A Dam Rib Bed

    01965HD

    "A two screen Dream/Film/Farce/Sity about sleeps-two-sides-the Dream-Beast, animated trick photography combined into a knifed dream with a sexual...

    A Dam Rib Bed
  • 1964
    Phenomenon No. 1

    Phenomenon No. 1

    Phenomenon No. 1

    01964HD

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

    Phenomenon No. 1
  • 1966
    Vision III

    Vision III

    Vision III

    01966HD

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

    Vision III
  • 1966
    Movie-Drome

    Movie-Drome

    Movie-Drome

    01966HD

    Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s spheres, VanDerBeek had the idea for a spherical theater where people would lie down and experience movies...

    Movie-Drome
  • 2000
    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

    02000HD

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

    Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
  • 1970
    Videospace

    Videospace

    Videospace

    01970HD

    "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...

    Videospace
  • 1968
    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    01968HD

    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...

    Film Form No. 1
  • 1967
    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    01967HD

    To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs....

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
  • 1980
    Mirrored Reason

    Mirrored Reason

    Mirrored Reason

    01980HD

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

    Mirrored Reason
  • 1965
    The Human Face Is a Monument

    The Human Face Is a Monument

    The Human Face Is a Monument

    01965HD

    The Human Face Is a Monument
  • 1972
    The Computer Generation

    The Computer Generation

    The Computer Generation

    01972HD

    Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for...

    The Computer Generation
  • 1959
    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    01959HD

    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...

    Dance of the Looney Spoons
  • 1965
    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    Pastorale

    01965HD

    A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

    Pastorale
  • 1957
    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    4.21957HD

    An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

    What, Who, How
  • 1966
    Collide: Oscope

    Collide: Oscope

    Collide: Oscope

    01966HD

    An experimental film

    Collide: Oscope
  • 1965
    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    41965HD

    An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

    See Saw Seams