
Stan VanDerBeek
Directing
Born: 1927-01-06 · New York, New York
Died: 1984-09-19
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’), Breath
🎬 Movies (30)

Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
2000

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie
1983
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Reeling in TV Time
1983
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Micro Cosmos 1-4
1983
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Self-Poured Traits
1983
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After Laughter
1981
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Face Concert
1981
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Euclidean Illusions
1980
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Mirrored Reason
1980
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Strobe Ode
1977
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Vanishing Point Left
1977
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Color Fields Left
1977
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Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973

Reality's Invisible
1972
Self

Symmetricks
1972
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The Computer Generation
1972
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Who Ho Rays No. 1
1972
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Moirage
1970
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Videospace
1970
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Filmmakers
1969
Himself

Superimposition
1968
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Ad Infinitum
1968
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Film Form No. 1
1968
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Oh
1968
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Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
1968
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Image After Image
1967
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Man and His World
1967
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Expo Faces
1967
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Fuses
1967
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