Stan VanDerBeek Movies

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror...

Strobe Ode is an exercise in video feedback and analog imaging, in which a circular image-field is modified and abstracted by strobe flashes.

"A study in ocular illusions, pattern superimposition producing other patterns and illusions of three dimensionality. A thorough demonstration of the...

In Vanishing Point Left, the "vanishing point" is an analogy for the metaphysics of watching the video screen, which assumes such forms as a mandala,...

Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s spheres, VanDerBeek had the idea for a spherical theater where people would lie down and experience movies...

An experimental film

A study in analog imaging and the relation of sound to image, Color Fields Left merges moving bands of color with electronic sounds in an...

"Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy-farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion,...

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

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

Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs....

Experimental film that used handheld projectors to present film images and slide projections.

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

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer...

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

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...

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

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