Stan VanDerBeek Movies

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

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...

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

A Stan VanDerBeek short film from 1965.

Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

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

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

A study in analog imaging and the relation of sound to image, Color Fields Left merges moving bands of color with electronic sounds in an...

Performance art collaboration between Jim Dine and Stan VanDerBeek.

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

Optically-printed film and computer graphics synthesis. 16mm, color, silent, 4:40 min.

An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

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

Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry...