Directing · b. 1927 · New York, New York

Stan VanDerBeek

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. ...

Directed
Reeling in TV Time 1983 Self-Poured Traits 1983 Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie 1983 Micro Cosmos 1-4 1983 After Laughter 1981 Face Concert 1981 Euclidean Illusions 1980 Mirrored Reason 1980 Strobe Ode 1977 Vanishing Point Left 1977 Color Fields Left 1977 Symmetricks 1972 The Computer Generation 1972 Who Ho Rays No. 1 1972 Moirage 1970 Videospace 1970 Superimposition 1968 Ad Infinitum 1968 Film Form No. 1 1968 Oh 1968 Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall 1968 Image After Image 1967 Man and His World 1967 Expo Faces 1967 Poem Field Series 1967 Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version) 1967 Panels for the Walls of the World 1967 Poem Field No. 3 1967 For Life, Against the War 1967 Spherical Space No. 1 1967 Poem Field No. 1 1967 Poem Field No. 7 1967 Collide: Oscope 1966 Poem Field No. 2 1966 Vision III 1966 Movie-Drome 1966 Movie-Movies 1965 See Saw Seams 1965 The Human Face Is a Monument 1965 Pastorale 1965 A Dam Rib Bed 1965 Facescapes 1965 The Birth of the American Flag 1965 Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2 1964 Phenomenon No. 1 1964 Site 1964 Fluids 1964 Breathdeath 1963 Summit 1963 Skullduggery 1962 Snapshots of the City 1961 Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev 1960 Black and White, Day and Night 1960 The Smiling Workman 1960 A La Mode 1959 Science Friction 1959 Street Meat 1959 Astral Man 1959 Dance of the Looney Spoons 1959 Wheeeels No. 1 1958 Wheeeeels No. 2 1958 What, Who, How 1957 Mankinda 1957
Cinematography
Fuses 1967
Acting
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek 2000 Home Movies 1971-81 1985 Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” 1973 Reality's Invisible Himself 1972 Filmmakers Himself 1969
Other Credits
Pittsburgh Cinematography 1959
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