Movies

A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

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

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

An experimental film

Camera animation over stills, “a portrait study of mankind, beginning with an infant and growing up to old age and death... using still...

Self Poured Traits is a tongue-in-cheek self-examination set to the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth.

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

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

In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...

In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.

Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

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

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

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

Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

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

This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...

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...

"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/...

An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.