Stan VanDerBeek Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

"A film of video light and color. Dancers move through computer-generated patterns and fields of soft color to the music of Ravel. An experiment in...

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

Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry...

A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA...

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

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

"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,...

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

”Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces with faces, a haunting view of man...

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

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life...

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...

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