Stan VanDerBeek Movies

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

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

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

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

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

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was...

A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA...

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

Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

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

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

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...

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...

Stan VanDerBeek, experimental filmmaker at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw, at the sophisticated new (1972) computer at MIT Center for...

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...

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life...

Poem Field No. 6 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into...