Stan Vanderbeek
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Original format 16mm
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Stan Vanderbeek
Booklet 16 pages (français, anglais)
Running time 73 min
Films
SCIENCE FRICTION (1959) 10'
A LA MODE (1959) 7'
BREATHDEATH (1963) 15'
POEMFIELD N°2 (1971) 6'
ACHOO MR KERROOSCHEVV (1960) 2'
SEE SAW SEAMS (1965) 9'
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF THE WORLD (1967) 8'
OH (1968) 10'
SYMMETRICKS (1971) 6'
Description
Vanderbeek was an early visionary, from his first animated collages, created in the surrealist and dadaist spirit of Max Ernst, but with a savage and raw simplicity closer to the expressionism of the Beat Generation (Terry Gilliam of Monty Python cites Vanderbeek as one of his earliest sources of inspiration). His utopian experiments in expanded cinema (construction of a hemispherical theater with dozens of projectors, computer animation, holographic experiments) led him to conceive global murals by fax, projections on vapor, and interactive television broadcasts.
"Vanderbeek is one of our few true cine-artists, a poet, a clown, a laugher of the atomic age."
— Jonas Mekas
"Stan Vanderbeek is the Tom Swift of the underground, an inventor of processes and approaches. He is also a collagist, a collisionist, and like Georges Méliès, whom he claims as godfather, an illusionist. His early films are animated collages, the following films, like Breathdeath, are collages of filmic techniques, and his later films, including the Movie-Drome device, are collages of media."
— Sheldon Renan
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