Movies

  • 1983
    Reeling in TV Time

    Reeling in TV Time

    Reeling in TV Time

    01983HD

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

    Reeling in TV Time
  • 1959
    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    Dance of the Looney Spoons

    01959HD

    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...

    Dance of the Looney Spoons
  • 1968
    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

    01968HD

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

    Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
  • 1965
    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    See Saw Seams

    41965HD

    An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

    See Saw Seams
  • 1967
    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

    01967HD

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

    Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
  • 1970
    Poem Field No. 4

    Poem Field No. 4

    Poem Field No. 4

    01970HD

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

    Poem Field No. 4
  • 1980
    Mirrored Reason

    Mirrored Reason

    Mirrored Reason

    01980HD

    A Kafka-inspired tale, Mirrored Reason tells the story of a woman who is haunted and eventually replaced by her double.

    Mirrored Reason
  • 1958
    Wheeeeels No. 2

    Wheeeeels No. 2

    Wheeeeels No. 2

    01958HD

    A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 1, exploring more of the highways and by-ways of “American on Wheels”- with the filmmaker's gentle...

    Wheeeeels No. 2
  • 1959
    Street Meat

    Street Meat

    Street Meat

    01959HD

    Vanderbeek photographs NYC, 1959. The 'meat' of the street: Doorways, debris, dilapidation. We meet a few youngsters and get a glimpse into a bygone...

    Street Meat
  • 1967
    Spherical Space No. 1

    Spherical Space No. 1

    Spherical Space No. 1

    01967HD

    A dance filmed with Elaine Summers, in which the nude figure is placed against nature, in this case a particular and spherical sense of nature as...

    Spherical Space No. 1
  • 1963
    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    Breathdeath

    4.91963HD

    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...

    Breathdeath
  • 1977
    Vanishing Point Left

    Vanishing Point Left

    Vanishing Point Left

    01977HD

    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,...

    Vanishing Point Left