Stan VanDerBeek Movies

Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

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

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

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...

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

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

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

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

Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.

In Vanishing Point Left, the "vanishing point" is an analogy for the metaphysics of watching the video screen, which assumes such forms as a mandala,...

Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or...

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

A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

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

"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...

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