Stan VanDerBeek Movies

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

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...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

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....

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science...

A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

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...

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

"An animated vision... a subliminal glance at man in light and space" S.V.

16mm film transferred to video, black and white, silent

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

"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/...

Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply – a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or...

"A film of video light and color. Dancers move through computer-generated patterns and fields of soft color to the music of Ravel. An experiment in...

16mm film transferred to video, black and white, sound