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.
In the 1960’s, in the context of his expanded cinema research, Vanderbeek started his audacious project of the “Movie Drome” theater, a space that allowed him to create an appropriate environment for his synesthetic works, which included film, performance and dance among other disciplines. The filmmaker spent about 10 years developing this project, which consisted of a huge dome that surrounded the audience and engulfed them in the images projected all around them.
From the mid-1960’s, Vanderbeek ‘s appetite for exploring new technologies increased and tools such as video played a major part in the filmmaker’s work. This can be seen in his computer-animated films from this period such as Symmetricks (1972, 6’) and the Poemfield series of 8 computer generated animations (1966-1971). His work with computers and experiments with holograms reflected his desire to use the most complex technology to get as close as possible to the functioning of the human nervous system.
In addition to his creative work in the fields of film and video art, Vanderbeek was a faculty member and artist-in-residence at a number of major universities. He died in 1984.
Filmography
all 72
Movies 72
Director 66
self 2
Producer 1
Reeling in TV Time (1983)
Micro Cosmos 1-4 (1983)
Self-Poured Traits (1983)
Face Concert (1981)
After Laughter (1981)
Mirrored Reason (1980)
Euclidean Illusions (1980)
Color Fields Left (1977)
Vanishing Point Left (1977)
Strobe Ode (1977)
Symmetricks (1972)
Who Ho Rays No. 1 (1972)
Videospace (1970)
Moirage (1970)
Oh (1968)
Ad Infinitum (1968)
Film Form No. 1 (1968)
Superimposition (1968)
Fuses (1967)
Poem Field No. 1 (1967)
Poem Field Series (1967)
Poem Field No. 7 (1967)
Image After Image (1967)
Poem Field No. 3 (1967)
Man and His World (1967)
Expo Faces (1967)
Collide: Oscope (1966)
Poem Field No. 2 (1966)
Movie-Drome (1966)
Vision III (1966)
Pastorale (1965)
See Saw Seams (1965)
Facescapes (1965)
Movie-Movies (1965)
A Dam Rib Bed (1965)
Fluids (1964)
Phenomenon No. 1 (1964)
Site (1964)
Breathdeath (1963)
Summit (1963)
Skullduggery (1962)
The Smiling Workman (1960)
Science Friction (1959)
A La Mode (1959)
Astral Man (1959)
Street Meat (1959)
Wheeeeels No. 2 (1958)
Wheeeels No. 1 (1958)
What, Who, How (1957)
Mankinda (1957)
Poem Field No. 8
Poem Field No. 6
Poem Field No. 4
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1927-01-06
Deathday1984-09-19 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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