Stan VanDerBeek Movies

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

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

"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a...

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

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

An experimental film

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

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

An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting...

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

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...