Stan VanDerBeek

Stan VanDerBeek

Directing

Born January 6, 1927 · New York, New York

66 films as director · Active 1957–1983

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 h…

Known for

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

1973

Filmmakers

Filmmakers

1969

Home Movies 1971-81

Home Movies 1971-81

1985

Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

2000

Reality's Invisible

Reality's Invisible

1972

Directed(66)

Self-Poured Traits

1983Self-Poured Traits

Micro Cosmos 1-4

1983Micro Cosmos 1-4

Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

1983Sonia and Stan Paint a Portrait of Ronnie

Reeling in TV Time

1983Reeling in TV Time

After Laughter

1981After Laughter

Face Concert

1981Face Concert

Mirrored Reason

1980Mirrored Reason

Euclidean Illusions

1980Euclidean Illusions

Strobe Ode

Vanishing Point Left

1977Vanishing Point Left

Color Fields Left

1977Color Fields Left

Symmetricks

1972Symmetricks

The Computer Generation

1972The Computer Generation

Who Ho Rays No. 1

1972Who Ho Rays No. 1

Moirage

Superimposition

1968Superimposition

Ad Infinitum

1968Ad Infinitum

Film Form No. 1

1968Film Form No. 1

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

1968Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

Image After Image

1967Image After Image

Expo Faces

1967Man and His World

Poem Field Series

1967Poem Field Series

1967Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version)

1967Panels for the Walls of the World

Poem Field No. 3

1967Poem Field No. 3

For Life, Against the War

1967For Life, Against the War★ 6.0

Spherical Space No. 1

1967Spherical Space No. 1

Poem Field No. 1

1967Poem Field No. 1

Poem Field No. 7

1967Poem Field No. 7

1966Collide: Oscope

1966Poem Field No. 2★ 8.0

Movie-Drome

1966Movie-Drome

1965Movie-Movies

See Saw Seams

1965See Saw Seams★ 4.0

The Human Face Is a Monument

1965The Human Face Is a Monument

1965Pastorale★ 7.0

Facescapes

A Dam Rib Bed

1965A Dam Rib Bed

The Birth of the American Flag

1965The Birth of the American Flag

Fluids

Site

1964Site★ 6.0

Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

1964Newsreel of Dreams 1 & 2

Phenomenon No. 1

1964Phenomenon No. 1

Breathdeath

1963Breathdeath★ 4.9

Skullduggery

1962Skullduggery★ 4.3

Snapshots of the City

1961Snapshots of the City

1960Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev★ 5.2

Black and White, Day and Night

1960Black and White, Day and Night

The Smiling Workman

1960The Smiling Workman

1959A La Mode★ 5.5

1959Science Friction★ 5.8

Astral Man

1959Astral Man★ 8.0

Dance of the Looney Spoons

1959Dance of the Looney Spoons

Street Meat

1959Street Meat

1958Wheeeels No. 1

Wheeeeels No. 2

1958Wheeeeels No. 2

What, Who, How

1957What, Who, How★ 4.2

Mankinda

—Poem Field No. 4

—Poem Field No. 8

—Poem Field No. 6

Acting(5)

2000Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek

1985Home Movies 1971-81

1973Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

Stan VanDerBeek — Watchpile | Watchpile

1972Reality's InvisibleSelf

1969FilmmakersHimself