Stan VanDerBeek Movies

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

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

In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

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

Poem Field No. 6 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

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...

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

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

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

A dance filmed with Elaine Summers, in which the nude figure is placed against nature, in this case a particular and spherical sense of nature 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/...

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was...

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...

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

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

Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...