Stan VanDerBeek Movies

  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

    5.81967HD

    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 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
  • 1959
    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    Science Friction

    5.51959HD

    This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...

    Science Friction
  • 1966
    Poem Field No. 2

    Poem Field No. 2

    Poem Field No. 2

    81966HD

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

    Poem Field No. 2
  • 1962
    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    4.31962HD

    A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

    Skullduggery
  • 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
  • 1963
    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.91963HD

    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...

    Breathdeath
  • 1960
    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev

    5.21960HD

    A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...

    Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1968
    Oh

    Oh

    Oh

    01968HD

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

    Oh
  • 1966
    Vision III

    Vision III

    Vision III

    01966HD

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

    Vision III
  • 1968
    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    Film Form No. 1

    01968HD

    A hypnotic dance film of colours, dancers, forms, music, all sweeping through the TV tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and...

    Film Form No. 1
  • 1964
    Fluids

    Fluids

    Fluids

    01964HD

    16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract....

    Fluids
  • 1964
    Site

    Site

    Site

    61964HD

    Performance by Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann.

    Site
  • 1983
    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

    01983HD

    In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...

    Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
  • 1977
    Strobe Ode

    Strobe Ode

    Strobe Ode

    01977HD

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

    Strobe Ode
  • 1967
    Man and His World

    Man and His World

    Man and His World

    01967HD

    16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

    Man and His World
  • 1957
    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    What, Who, How

    4.11957HD

    An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

    What, Who, How
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    01969HD

    Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

    Filmmakers