About

Known credits:
73
Birthday:
1927-01-06
Place of birth:
New York, New York
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Stan VanDerBeek

Overview

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.

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Acting
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1985 Home Movies 1971-81 Actor N/A
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1972 Reality's Invisible Actor Himself 59
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1969 Filmmakers Actor Himself N/A
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1983 Reeling in TV Time Directing Director N/A
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1983 Micro Cosmos 1-4 Directing Director N/A
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1983 Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie Directing Director N/A
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1983 Self-Poured Traits Directing Director N/A
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1981 Face Concert Directing Director N/A
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1981 After Laughter Directing Director N/A
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1980 Mirrored Reason Directing Director N/A
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1980 Euclidean Illusions Directing Director N/A
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1977 Color Fields Left Directing Director N/A
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1977 Vanishing Point Left Directing Director N/A
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1977 Strobe Ode Directing Director N/A
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1972 Symmetricks Directing Director N/A
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1972 Who Ho Rays No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1972 The Computer Generation Directing Director N/A
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1970 Videospace Directing Director N/A
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1970 Moirage Directing Director N/A
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1968 Oh Directing Director N/A
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1968 Ad Infinitum Directing Director N/A
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1968 Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall Directing Director N/A
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1968 Film Form No. 1 Directing Director 58
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1968 Superimposition Directing Director N/A
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1967 Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version) Directing Director N/A
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1967 Poem Field No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1967 Panels for the Walls of the World Directing Director N/A
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1967 Poem Field Series Directing Director N/A
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1967 Poem Field No. 7 Directing Director N/A
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1967 Image After Image Directing Director N/A
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1967 For Life, Against the War Directing Director 59
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1967 Poem Field No. 3 Directing Director N/A
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1967 Expo Faces Directing Director N/A
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1967 Man and His World Directing Director N/A
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1967 Spherical Space No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1966 Collide: Oscope Directing Director N/A
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1966 Poem Field No. 2 Directing Director 59
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1966 Vision III Directing Director N/A
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1966 Movie-Drome Directing Director N/A
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1965 The Human Face Is a Monument Directing Director N/A
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1965 See Saw Seams Directing Director 59
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1965 Pastorale Directing Director N/A
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1965 Movie-Movies Directing Director N/A
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1965 A Dam Rib Bed Directing Director N/A
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1965 Facescapes Directing Director N/A
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1965 The Birth of the American Flag Directing Director N/A
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1964 Fluids Directing Director N/A
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1964 Phenomenon No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1964 Site Directing Director 59
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1964 Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2 Directing Director N/A
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1963 Breathdeath Directing Director 59
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1963 Summit Directing Director N/A
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1962 Skullduggery Directing Director 58
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1961 Snapshots of the City Directing Director N/A
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1960 Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev Directing Director 59
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1960 Black and White, Day and Night Directing Director N/A
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1960 The Smiling Workman Directing Director N/A
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1959 Science Friction Directing Director 58
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1959 Street Meat Directing Director N/A
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1959 A La Mode Directing Director 58
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1959 Dance of the Looney Spoons Directing Director N/A
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1959 Astral Man Directing Director 59
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1958 Wheeeels No. 1 Directing Director N/A
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1958 Wheeeeels No. 2 Directing Director N/A
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1957 What, Who, How Directing Director 58
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1957 Mankinda Directing Director N/A
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Poem Field No. 6 Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1959 A La Mode Writing Writer 58
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Camera
1967 Fuses Camera Director of Photography 59
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Editing
1963 Breathdeath Editing Editor 59
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