Stan VanDerBeek Movies

In Vanishing Point Left, the "vanishing point" is an analogy for the metaphysics of watching the video screen, which assumes such forms as a mandala,...

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

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

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

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...

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

Self Poured Traits is a tongue-in-cheek self-examination set to the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth.

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as...

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer...

Camera animation over stills, “a portrait study of mankind, beginning with an infant and growing up to old age and death... using still...

A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it is...

An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was...

Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

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...

In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.