Stan VanDerBeek
Directing
Born January 6, 1927 in New York, New York
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.
Filmography
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Home Movies 1971-81
Reeling in TV Time
Micro Cosmos 1-4
Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
Self-Poured Traits
Face Concert
After Laughter
Mirrored Reason
Euclidean Illusions
Color Fields Left
Vanishing Point Left
Strobe Ode
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
Symmetricks
Reality's Invisible
Self
Who Ho Rays No. 1
The Computer Generation
Moirage
Filmmakers
Himself
Oh
Ad Infinitum
Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
Superimposition
Film Form No. 1
Fuses
Poem Field No. 1
Poem Field Series
Poem Field No. 7
Image After Image
For Life, Against the War
Expo Faces
Poem Field No. 3
Spherical Space No. 1
Movie-Drome
See Saw Seams
The Human Face Is a Monument
Facescapes
A Dam Rib Bed
The Birth of the American Flag
Fluids
Site
Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2
Phenomenon No. 1
Breathdeath
Skullduggery
Snapshots of the City
Black and White, Day and Night
The Smiling Workman
Pittsburgh
Astral Man
Dance of the Looney Spoons
Street Meat
Wheeeeels No. 2
What, Who, How
Mankinda