Stan VanDerBeek

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-01-06 (57 years old)

Deathday

1984-09-19

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Stan VanDerBeek

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’), Breathdeath (1963, 15’), A la Mode (1959, 7’) and Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev (1960, 2’) are from this period. In the 1960’s, in the context of his expanded cine...

Production

1967

1959

A La Mode

as Director

1959

Science Friction

as Director

1962

Skullduggery

as Director

1959

A La Mode

as Writer

1972

Symmetricks

as Director

1965

Movie-Movies

as Director

1966

Collide: Oscope

as Director

1960

1965

See Saw Seams

as Director

1966

Poem Field No. 2

as Director

1966

Vision III

as Director

1967

1968

Superimposition

as Director

1967

Expo Faces

as Director

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Poem Field No. 4

as Director

-

Poem Field No. 6

as Director

-

Poem Field No. 8

as Director

1963

Breathdeath

as Director

1963

Breathdeath

as Editor

1967

Fuses

as Director of Photography

1957

What, Who, How

as Director

1958

Wheeeels No. 1

as Director

1967

1968

Ad Infinitum

as Director

1968

Film Form No. 1

as Director

1957

Mankinda

as Director

1968

Oh

as Director

1966

Movie-Drome

as Director

1965

Pastorale

as Director

1967

Poem Field No. 3

as Director

1958

Wheeeeels No. 2

as Director

1960

1959

Street Meat

as Director

1959

Astral Man

as Director

1964

Fluids

as Director

1964

Phenomenon No. 1

as Director

1964

Site

as Director

1965

A Dam Rib Bed

as Director

1965

Facescapes

as Director

1967

1967

Poem Field No. 1

as Director

1980

1980

Mirrored Reason

as Director

1981

After Laughter

as Director

1963

Summit

as Director

1961

1970

Moirage

as Director

1970

Videospace

as Director

1977

Strobe Ode

as Director

1977

1981

Face Concert

as Director

1977

1983

1983

Micro Cosmos 1-4

as Director

1983

1972

1967

Poem Field No. 7

as Director

1959

Pittsburgh

as Cinematography

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