Stan VanDerBeek Movies

  • 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
  • 1957
    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    4.21957HD

    An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

    What, Who, How
  • 1968
    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    01968HD

    COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer...

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
  • 1967
    Image After Image

    Image After Image

    Image After Image

    01967HD

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

    Image After Image
  • 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
  • 1959
    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    A La Mode

    5.51959HD

    A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

    A La Mode
  • 1961
    Snapshots of the City

    Snapshots of the City

    Snapshots of the City

    01961HD

    "A Claes Oldenburg 'happening.' A black statement about the City in which two people represent the populace after a bomb raid." S.V.

    Snapshots of the City
  • 1958
    Wheeeeels No. 2

    Wheeeeels No. 2

    Wheeeeels No. 2

    01958HD

    A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 1, exploring more of the highways and by-ways of “American on Wheels”- with the filmmaker's gentle...

    Wheeeeels No. 2
  • 1960
    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    The Smiling Workman

    01960HD

    Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

    The Smiling Workman
  • 1958
    Wheeeels No. 1

    Wheeeels No. 1

    Wheeeels No. 1

    01958HD

    "Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy-farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion,...

    Wheeeels No. 1
  • 1977
    Vanishing Point Left

    Vanishing Point Left

    Vanishing Point Left

    01977HD

    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,...

    Vanishing Point Left
  • 1977
    Color Fields Left

    Color Fields Left

    Color Fields Left

    01977HD

    A study in analog imaging and the relation of sound to image, Color Fields Left merges moving bands of color with electronic sounds in an...

    Color Fields Left
  • 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
  • 1959
    Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh

    01959HD

    Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of...

    Pittsburgh
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    5.91972HD

    Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...

    Reality's Invisible