Science Friction
This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...
See moreFuses
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat...
See moreSkullduggery
A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.
See moreA La Mode
A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.
See moreFluids
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...
See moreFor Life, Against the War
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
See moreAchooo Mr. Kerrooschev
A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in...
See moreSymmetricks
Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...
See moreThe Smiling Workman
Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.
See moreWhat, Who, How
An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.
See morePoem Field No. 1
"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode...
See moreThe Human Face Is a Monument
Poem Field No. 7
"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/...
See morePoem Field No. 2
To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs. Each...
See moreBreathdeath
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...
See moreMan and His World
16mm film transferred to video, color, sound
See morePoem Field Series
"Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer....
See moreSee Saw Seams
An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.
See moreMankinda
An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting...
See moreSonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...
See more