- Description:
- DVD. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials include an essay booklet available at checkout.
Titles
+ Science Friction
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Animated social satire on technology and competitiveness.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ A La Mode
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “A montage of women and appearances, a fantasy about beauty and the female, an homage, a mirage. An attire satire.” - VanDerBeek.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Breathdeath
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “Dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woddcuts of the dance of the dead. [...] It is a collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with the inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks death... a parabolic parable.” - VanDerBeek.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Poemfield no. 2
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “Computer animation/high-speed electronic calligraphy/film as a book. The computer is used to move abstract images at incredible high speeds.
The computer as a new graphic tool... The series of films called “Poem Field” is also known as the Computer Art Series and is comprised of animated computer/graphic films. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and, in some cases, combine live action images with animation collage - all are geometric and fast moving. As samples of the art of the future, all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and works. In effect, these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from ‘mental movies.’” - VanDerBeek.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1960
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “A sneezing, displeasing, crooked-looked of visual pratfalls by a patented politician in animation and live.” - VanDerBeek.
+ See Saw Seams
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “Juxtaposed with what we see... is what we think we saw... this is, the memory of dream is as real as the dream itself but is completely different from the dream itself. This film is an experiment in animation, in which the eye of the viewer travels deeper and deeper into each scene, finding new relationships and visual metaphors in what appears, at first sight, a simple scene.” - VanDerBeek
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Oh
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces within faces, a haunting view of a man drawn in brilliant animation graphics.” - VanDerBeek.
+ Symmetricks
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1972
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- “A computer-created animation of high-speed stroboscope mandalas with molecular-like energy. The surprise of this film is the color produced from the strobing black and white symmetrical images. Done with an electronic stylus on a special computer at MIT. This film demonstrates the possible use of the computer interacting with the graphic artist.”
+ Panels for the Walls of the World
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation,
- Notes:
- “An experiment in the video tape control, an electric collage that mixes images by way of electronic mattes, superimpositions, and other electronic means of integrating as many as eight separate images onto one screen. A film comissioned by CBS for television, it is the first such attempt to examine the almost unlimited graphic and visual possibilities of video tape intermix.” - VanDerBeek.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Stan VanDerBeekiana
- Director:
- VanDerBeek, Stan; Havinga, Nick
- Production Co:
- Vanderbeek Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 28 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Year:
- 1968
- Genre:
- Documentary, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A 1968 CBS ‘Camera Three’ interview/documentary, including the interpolation of three VanDerBeek films: See Saw Seems, Image after Image, and Poem Field no. 1.