Stan VANDERBEEK

Nationality: American

He attended the Black Mountain Experimental College, where he met the architect Buckminster Fuller and the composer John Cage. From 1955 to 1965, he made his first films mainly from paintings and collages of images found in art magazines and journals. During this period, he did not hesitate to ironically mix up the body parts of characters, sometimes politicians (BREATHDEATH, 1964), or to combine classical and modern paintings. In some of his films, he also used brush painting and drawn calligraphy (MANKINDA, 1957). In the late 50s and early 60s he recorded performances by Claes Oldenburg (SNAPSHOTS OF THE CITYS, 1961) and Allan Kaprow. He then collaborated with dancers such as Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer. He created shows for the Movie-Drome, a domed theatre he had built to host multiple-projector sessions. He is one of those artists who nurture the hope that the satellite will weave simultaneous links between people. With this utopian goal in mind, he worked as artist-in-residence at WGBH. In 1966, he worked with Ken Knowlton at Bell Telephone Laboratories. There he made new animated films using a computer and experimented with the hologram technique. He has received numerous awards from well-known institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

22 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

EUCLIDEAN ILLUSIONS
1979-1980 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 110 €
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WHO HO RAY NO. 1
1966-1972 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm
POEMFIELD NO. 2
1971 / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or DCP on server or Digital file on server
OH!
1968 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
POEMFIELD NO. 5 - Freefall
1968 / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 110 €
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POEMFIELD NO. 7 - Peace
1967-1968 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 110 €
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MOIRAGE
1967 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 9' 21 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF THE WORLD
1967 / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 60 €
distribution: 16mm
POEMFIELD NO. 1
1967 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 4' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or DCP on server or Digital file on server
POEMFIELD NO. 1 (BLUE VERSION)
1967 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 4' 41 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm
POEMFIELD NO. 3
1967 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 9' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or DCP on server or Digital file on USB stick
SEE, SAW, SEEMS
1965 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 110 €
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BREATHDEATH
1964 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 70 € or 110 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on USB stick
SITE
1964 / b&w / silent / single screen / 6' 00 / 110 €
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SKULLDUGGERY
1960 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 110 €
distribution: Digital file on USB stick
À LA MODE
1959-1960 / b&w / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 60 €
distribution: 16mm
DANCE OF THE LOONEY SPOONS
1959 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm
SCIENCE FRICTION
1959 / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or DCP on server or Digital file on server
WHEEEELS NO. 2 - America on Wheels
1959 / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
WHEEEELS NO. 1 - The Immaculate Contraption
1958 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 06 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
MANKINDA
1957 / b&w / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 60 €
distribution: 16mm
WHAT, WHO, HOW
1957 / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 110 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server