Stan VanDerBeek Movies

"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a...

An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.

Visual Velocity is a tribute to the pioneering work of Stan VanDerBeek. VanDerBeek was an experimental filmmaker, artist, animator, and media...

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...

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

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

A short by Stan Vanderbeek.

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...

In Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie, VanDerBeek and artist Sonia Sheridan assemble a pastiche of images of Ronald Reagan, metamorphosed...

A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it is...

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

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...

16mm film transferred to video, color, sound

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

"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/...

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

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

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

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