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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1927-01-06
- event Death Date 1984-09-19
- school Known for: Directing
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Stan VanDerBeek
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
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Filmmakers
1969-01-01
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Reality's Invisible
1972-04-19
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Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
2000-01-01
movie_edit Directing
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Image After Image
1967-04-14
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A La Mode
1959-01-01
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Science Friction
1959-12-31
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Skullduggery
1962-12-31
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A La Mode
1959-01-01
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Symmetricks
1972-12-31
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Movie-Movies
1965-01-01
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Collide: Oscope
1966-02-09
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Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
1960-09-18
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See Saw Seams
1965-08-06
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Poem Field No. 2
1966-01-01
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Vision III
1966-01-01
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Man and His World
1967-01-01
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Superimposition
1968-01-01
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Expo Faces
1967-01-01
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Poem Field No. 4
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Poem Field No. 6
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Poem Field No. 8
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Breathdeath
1963-12-28
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Breathdeath
1963-12-28
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Black and White, Day and Night
1960-06-14
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Fuses
1967-12-31
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What, Who, How
1957-12-31
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The Human Face Is a Monument
1965-08-06
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Wheeeels No. 1
1958-01-01
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Poem Field Series
1967-06-10
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Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)
1967-12-31
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Ad Infinitum
1968-06-01
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Film Form No. 1
1968-01-01
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Panels for the Walls of the World
1967-06-15
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Mankinda
1957-06-15
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Oh
1968-06-15
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Movie-Drome
1966-01-01
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Pastorale
1965-08-06
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Poem Field No. 3
1967-01-01
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For Life, Against the War
1967-01-30
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Wheeeeels No. 2
1958-01-01
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The Smiling Workman
1960-01-01
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Street Meat
1959-01-01
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Astral Man
1959-01-01
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Dance of the Looney Spoons
1959-01-01
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Fluids
1964-01-01
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Phenomenon No. 1
1964-01-01
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Site
1964-01-01
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Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2
1964-01-01
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A Dam Rib Bed
1965-01-01
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The Birth of the American Flag
1965-01-01
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Facescapes
1965-01-01
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Spherical Space No. 1
1967-01-01
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The Computer Generation
1972-03-19
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Poem Field No. 1
1967-06-30
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Euclidean Illusions
1980-01-01
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Mirrored Reason
1980-01-01
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After Laughter
1981-01-01
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Summit
1963-12-27
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Snapshots of the City
1961-01-01
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Moirage
1970-01-01
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Videospace
1970-07-07
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Strobe Ode
1977-01-01
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Vanishing Point Left
1977-05-12
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Face Concert
1981-06-02
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Color Fields Left
1977-09-19
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Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
1983-06-20
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Reeling in TV Time
1983-07-07
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Micro Cosmos 1-4
1983-07-06
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Self-Poured Traits
1983-06-14
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Who Ho Rays No. 1
1972-03-31
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Poem Field No. 7
1967-06-06
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Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
1968-05-29