Stan VanDerBeek

Person Details

Birthday: 1927-01-06 05:35:41

Death: 1984-09-19 05:35:41

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York, New York

Homepage: http://www.stanvanderbeek.com/

Movie Involvements: 69

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

Biography

American experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek began his career in the 1950’s after having studied art and architecture in New York and North Carolina. His earliest period (1955-1965) is marked by his animated painting and collage films which the artist and critic Daryl Chin regarded as having an “enormous vitality, bounding inventiveness and incendiary wit which was shared by such other collagists as Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Dick Preston.” Films such as Science Friction (1959, 10’), Breathdeath (1963, 15’), A la Mode (1959, 7’) and Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev (1960, 2’) are from this period. In the 1960’s, in the context of his expanded cinema research, Vanderbeek started his audacious project of the “Movie Drome” theater, a space that allowed him to create an appropriate environment for his synesthetic works, which included film, performance and dance among other disciplines. The filmmaker spent about 10 years developing this project, which consisted of a huge dome that surrounded the audience and engulfed them in the images projected all around them. From the mid-1960’s, Vanderbeek ‘s appetite for exploring new technologies increased and tools such as video played a major part in the filmmaker’s work. This can be seen in his computer-animated films from this period such as Symmetricks (1972, 6’) and the Poemfield series of 8 computer generated animations (1966-1971). His work with computers and experiments with holograms reflected his desire to use the most complex technology to get as close as possible to the functioning of the human nervous system. In addition to his creative work in the fields of film and video art, Vanderbeek was a faculty member and artist-in-residence at a number of major universities. He died in 1984.

Most Famous Work

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2000	N/A	Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek 2000-01-01 Movie
1985	N/A	Home Movies 1971-81 1985-01-01 Movie
1972	Himself	Reality's Invisible 1972-04-19 Movie
1969	Himself	Filmmakers 1969-01-01 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Directing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1983	Director	Reeling in TV Time 1983-07-07 Movie
	Director	Micro Cosmos 1-4 1983-07-06 Movie
	Director	Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie 1983-06-20 Movie
	Director	Self-Poured Traits 1983-06-14 Movie
1981	Director	Face Concert 1981-06-02 Movie
	Director	After Laughter 1981-01-01 Movie
1980	Director	Euclidean Illusions 1980-01-01 Movie
	Director	Mirrored Reason 1980-01-01 Movie
1977	Director	Color Fields Left 1977-09-19 Movie
	Director	Vanishing Point Left 1977-05-12 Movie
	Director	Strobe Ode 1977-01-01 Movie
1972	Director	Symmetricks 1972-12-31 Movie
	Director	Who Ho Rays No. 1 1972-03-31 Movie
	Director	The Computer Generation 1972-03-19 Movie
1970	Director	Videospace 1970-07-07 Movie
	Director	Moirage 1970-01-01 Movie
1968	Director	Oh 1968-06-15 Movie
	Director	Ad Infinitum 1968-06-01 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall 1968-05-29 Movie
	Director	Film Form No. 1 1968-01-01 Movie
	Director	Superimposition 1968-01-01 Movie
1967	Director	A Dam Rib Bed 1967-12-31 Movie
	Director	Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version) 1967-12-31 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 1 1967-06-30 Movie
	Director	Panels for the Walls of the World 1967-06-15 Movie
	Director	Poem Field Series 1967-06-10 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 7 1967-06-06 Movie
	Director	Image After Image 1967-04-14 Movie
	Director	For Life, Against the War 1967-01-30 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 3 1967-01-01 Movie
	Director	Spherical Space No. 1 1967-01-01 Movie
	Director	Man and His World 1967-01-01 Movie
	Director	Expo Faces 1967-01-01 Movie
1966	Director	Collide: Oscope 1966-02-09 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 2 1966-01-01 Movie
	Director	Vision III 1966-01-01 Movie
	Director	Movie-Drome 1966-01-01 Movie
1965	Director	See Saw Seams 1965-08-06 Movie
	Director	The Human Face Is a Monument 1965-08-06 Movie
	Director	Pastorale 1965-08-06 Movie
	Director	Facescapes 1965-01-01 Movie
	Director	The Birth of the American Flag 1965-01-01 Movie
	Director	Movie-Movies 1965-01-01 Movie
1964	Director	Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2 1964-01-01 Movie
	Director	Phenomenon No. 1 1964-01-01 Movie
	Director	Site 1964-01-01 Movie
	Director	Fluids 1964-01-01 Movie
1963	Director	Breathdeath 1963-12-28 Movie
	Director	Summit 1963-12-27 Movie
1962	Director	Skullduggery 1962-12-31 Movie
1961	Director	Snapshots of the City 1961-01-01 Movie
1960	Director	Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev 1960-09-18 Movie
	Director	Black and White, Day and Night 1960-06-14 Movie
	Director	The Smiling Workman 1960-01-01 Movie
1959	Director	Science Friction 1959-12-31 Movie
	Director	A La Mode 1959-01-01 Movie
	Director	Street Meet 1959-01-01 Movie
	Director	Astral Man 1959-01-01 Movie
	Director	Dance of the Looney Spoons 1959-01-01 Movie
	Director	Wheeeeels No. 2 1959-01-01 Movie
1958	Director	Wheeeels No. 1 1958-01-01 Movie
1957	Director	What, Who, How 1957-12-31 Movie
	Director	Mankinda 1957-06-15 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 4 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 6 Movie
	Director	Poem Field No. 8 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv