Stan VanDerBeek Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Stan VanDerBeek

Stan VanDerBeek

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Biography

American experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek began his career in the 1950’s after having studied art and architecture in New York and North Carolina. His earliest period (1955-1965) is marked by his animated painting and collage films which the artist and critic Daryl Chin regarded as having an “enormous vitality, bounding inventiveness and incendiary wit which was shared by such other collagists as Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Dick Preston.” Films such as Science Friction (1959, 10’), Breathdeath (1963, 15’), A la Mode (1959, 7’) and Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev (1960, 2’) are from this period. In the 1960’s, in the context of his expanded cinema research, Vanderbeek started his audacious project of the “Movie Drome” theater, a space that allowed him to create an appropriate environment for his synesthetic works, which included film, performance and dance among other disciplines. The filmmaker spent about 10 years developing this project, which consisted of a huge dome that surrounded the audience and engulfed them in the images projected all around them. From the mid-1960’s, Vanderbeek ‘s appetite for exploring new technologies increased and tools such as video played a major part in the filmmaker’s work. This can be seen in his computer-animated films from this period such as Symmetricks (1972, 6’) and the Poemfield series of 8 computer generated animations (1966-1971). His work with computers and experiments with holograms reflected his desire to use the most complex technology to get as close as possible to the functioning of the human nervous system. In addition to his creative work in the fields of film and video art, Vanderbeek was a faculty member and artist-in-residence at a number of major universities. He died in 1984.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Home Movies 1971-81 movie poster
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Home Movies 1971-81

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Home Movies 1971-81
Filmmakers movie poster
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Filmmakers

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Filmmakers
Himself
Reality's Invisible movie poster
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Reality's Invisible

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Reality's Invisible
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Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek movie poster
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Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

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Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” movie poster
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Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

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Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

Production

Image After Image movie poster
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Image After Image

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Image After Image
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A La ModeMOVIE
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A La Mode

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A La Mode
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Science FrictionMOVIE
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Science Friction

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Science Friction
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Skullduggery

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Skullduggery
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A La ModeMOVIE
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A La Mode

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A La Mode
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Symmetricks

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Symmetricks
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Collide: OscopeMOVIE
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Collide: Oscope

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Collide: Oscope
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Movie-MoviesMOVIE
MOVIE

Movie-Movies

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Movie-Movies
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Achooo Mr. KerrooschevMOVIE
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Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

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Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
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See Saw Seams movie poster
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See Saw Seams

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See Saw Seams
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Gallery

Stan VanDerBeek portrait
Stan VanDerBeek portrait